If you like the blast and excitement of a good card game and the excitement of winning and earning some cash with the odds in your favor, playing Blackjack is for you.

So, how can you defeat the house?

Quite simply when betting on vingt-et-un you are observing the risks and probabilities of the cards in relation to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards could come from the deck

When playing 21 there is statistically a best way to play every hand and this is known as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you anticipate the chances of cards being dealt from the deck, then you can increase your action size when the odds are in your favor and decrease them when the edge is not.

You’re only going to win under half the hands you wager on, so it is important that you adjust bet size when the risks are in your favour.

To do this when gambling on 21 you should use basic strategy and card counting to win.

Basic strategy and counting cards

Since professionals and intellectuals have been studying chemin de fer all sorts of complex plans have arisen, including "counting cards" but even though the theory is complex counting cards is actually straightforward when you wager on chemin de fer.

If when gambling on chemin de fer you card count correctly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can change the edge to your favour.

Vingt-et-un Basic Strategy

Chemin de fer basic strategy is centered around an unsophisticated plan of how you bet based upon the hand you are dealt and is mathematically the best hand to play while not counting cards. It informs you when wagering on twenty-one when you should hit or hold.

It’s extremely simple to do and is soon committed to memory and until then you can find no charge guides on the net

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

Card counting tilting the expectation in your favor

Card counting works and players use a card counting plan achieve an advantage over the gambling den.

The reason this is easy.

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

Low cards favour the casino because they help them make winning totals on their hands when she is stiff (has a 12, thirteen, fourteen, 15, or 16 total on their initial 2 cards).

In casino vingt-et-un, you can stand on your stiffs if you choose to, but the house can’t.

The house has no decision to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of playing blackjack require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how flush the deck is in high cards that will bust him.

The high cards favour the gambler because they may bust the house when he hits their stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the player.

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

You do not have to count the numbers of each of the individual card to know when you have an advantage over the casino.

You only need to know when the deck is flush or poor in high cards and you can up your bet when the edge is in your favour.

This is a basic explanation of how card-counting systems work, but gives you an understanding into how the rationale works.

When betting on vingt-et-un over the longer term card counting will assist in changing the expectation in your favour by approximately 2 percent.