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If you like the thrill and excitement of a perfect card game and the elation of winning and making some cash with the odds in your favour, betting on Blackjack is for you.

So, how can you defeat the casino?

Basically when betting on chemin de fer you are observing the risks and chances of the cards in relation to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards possibly could come from the shoe

When wagering on chemin de fer there is statistically a best way to play each hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you anticipate the odds of cards coming out of the deck, then you are able to boost your wager size when the edge is in your favor and lower them when they are not.

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

To do this when playing vingt-et-un you must use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

Basic tactics and counting cards

Since mathematicians and intellectuals have been investigating 21 all kinds of complex plans have been developed, including "card counting" but although the theory is complicated counting cards is all in all very easy when you gamble on twenty-one.

If when gambling on 21 you count cards properly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can change the odds to your favour.

21 Basic Strategy

Vingt-et-un basic strategy is centered around an uncomplicated plan of how you bet based upon the hand you receive and is statistically the strongest hand to use without card counting. It informs you when betting on blackjack when you need to hit or hold.

It is very easy to do and is soon committed to memory and up until then you can find free guides on the internet

Using it when you wager on blackjack will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to zero.

Counting cards shifting the odds in your favour

Card counting works and players use a card counting approach gain an edge over the casino.

The reasoning behind this is simple.

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

Low cards favor the house because they assist him make winning totals on his hands when he is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, or sixteen total on their first 2 cards).

In casino blackjack, you can stay on your stiffs if you choose to, but the house cannot.

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

The high cards favour the player because they may bust the casino when she hits her stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.

Despite the fact blackjacks are, equally dispensed between the house and the gambler, the fact is that the gambler gets paid more (3:2) when she gets a blackjack so the gambler has an edge.

You do not have to add up the numbers of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an edge over the casino.

You just need to know when the shoe is loaded or reduced in high cards and you can up your bet when the odds are in your favor.

This is a simple account of how card-counting systems work, but gives you an understanding into why the logic works.

When betting on chemin de fer over the longer term card counting will help in altering the edge in your favour by approximately 2 percent.