If you like the fulfillment and adventure of a perfect card game and the excitement of winning and earning some money with the odds in your favour, betting on vingt-et-un is for you.

So, how can you beat the croupier?

Basically when gambling on vingt-et-un you are studying the risks and probabilities of the cards in regard to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards possibly could come from the deck

When betting on chemin de fer there is mathematically a better way to play every hand and this is referred to as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you calculate the chances of cards coming out of the deck, then you can boost your bet amount when the edge is in your favor and lower them when the edge is not.

You are only going to succeed at under half the hands you gamble on, so it is important that you adjust bet size when the odds are in your favour.

To do this when wagering on twenty-one you must use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

Basic strategy and card counting

Since mathematicians and academics have been investigating Blackjack all sorts of abstract systems have been developed, including but not limited to "card counting" but although the theory is complex counting cards is all in all straightforward when you wager on chemin de fer.

If when playing vingt-et-un you card count correctly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can tilt the odds to your favour.

21 Basic Strategy

21 basic strategy is centered around an unsophisticated plan of how you bet based upon the cards you are dealt and is statistically the strongest hand to play without card counting. It tells you when betting on 21 when you should take another card or stand.

It’s surprisingly easy to do and is quickly memorized and up until then you can find complimentary cards on the internet

Using it when you bet on blackjack will bring down the casino’s odds advantage to near to even.

Card counting shifting the edge in your favour

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting approach gain an advantage over the gambling hall.

The reasoning behind this is simple.

Low cards favour the casino in blackjack and high cards favour the gambler.

Low cards favor the house because they assist her acquire winning totals on her hands when she is stiff (has a 12, 13, fourteen, 15, or 16 total on their 1st 2 cards).

In casino 21, you can hold on your stiffs if you want to, but the casino can’t.

The house has no decision to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of gambling on blackjack require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how rich the shoe is in high cards that will bust him.

The high cards favour the gambler because they may break the croupier when he hits their stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.

Although blackjacks are, evenly dispensed between the house and the gambler, the fact is that the player gets paid more (3:2) when he receives a blackjack so the player has an edge.

You don’t have to compute the numbers of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an advantage over the casino.

You just need to know at what point the deck is flush or reduced in high cards and you can up your bet when the expectation is in your favor.

This is a simple commentary of how card-counting schemes work, but gives you an insight into how the logic works.

When playing twenty-one over an extended time card counting will assist in altering the odds in your favour by approximately 2%.