If you like the thrill and adventure of a good card game and the elation of winning and earning some money with the odds in your favour, playing 21 is for you.

So, how do you defeat the house?

Basically when gambling on blackjack you are tracking the odds and chances of the cards in regard to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards should be dealt from the deck

When playing chemin de fer there is mathematically a best way to play each hand and this is known as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you compute the odds of cards coming out of the deck, then you can boost your bet amount when the odds are in your favor and decrease them when they are not.

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

To do this when playing chemin de fer you must use basic strategy and card counting to win.

Basic strategy and card counting

Since mathematicians and scientists have been studying vingt-et-un all sorts of abstract plans have arisen, including but not limited to "counting cards" but although the theory is complicated card counting is actually very easy when you play twenty-one.

If when wagering on 21 you card count effectively (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can tilt the odds to your favor.

Vingt-et-un Basic Strategy

Twenty-one basic strategy is amassed around a simple plan of how you wager based upon the cards you are dealt and is mathematically the strongest hand to play without counting cards. It tells you when playing blackjack when you need to take another card or stand.

It’s remarkably simple to do and is soon committed to memory and up until then you can find free cards on the net

Using it when you gamble on chemin de fer will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to even.

Card counting tilting the edge in your favor

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting plan achieve an advantage over the gambling hall.

The reason for this is simple.

Low cards favour the dealer in 21 and high cards favour the gambler.

Low cards favour the croupier because they aid him make winning totals on his hands when he is stiff (has a 12, 13, 14, fifteen, or 16 total on their 1st 2 cards).

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

The house has no choice to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of wagering on vingt-et-un require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the shoe is in high cards that will bust them.

The high cards favor the gambler because they could bust the croupier when she hits his stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.

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

You don’t have to tally the data of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an advantage over the dealer.

You only need to know at what point the shoe is rich or poor in high cards and you can elevate your wager when the odds are in your favor.

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

When betting on twenty-one over the longer term card counting will assist in changing the odds in your favor by approximately 2%.