If you like the blast and adventure of a great card game and the excitement of winning and making some money with the odds in your favour, playing 21 is for you.

So, how do you beat the dealer?

Basically when gambling on twenty-one you are looking at the risks and probabilities of the cards in regard to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards should be dealt from the shoe

When enjoying 21 there is mathematically a better way to play each hand and this is referred to as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you determine the chances of cards coming out of the deck, then you will be able to increase your wager size when the edge is in your favor and lower them when they are not.

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

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

Basic tactics and counting cards

Since professionals and intellectuals have been investigating chemin de fer all sorts of abstract plans have arisen, including but not limited to "counting cards" but although the theory is complex counting cards is all in all straightforward when you play chemin de fer.

If when gambling on vingt-et-un you count cards correctly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can shift the odds to your favour.

21 Basic Strategy

Twenty-one basic strategy is amassed around an uncomplicated approach of how you bet depending upon the hand you are dealt and is mathematically the best hand to use without card counting. It informs you when playing chemin de fer when you should hit or hold.

It is surprisingly simple to do and is quickly committed to memory and until then you can get free guides on the web

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

Counting cards shifting the expectation in your favor

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

The reason for this is easy.

Low cards favour the casino in vingt-et-un and high cards favor the player.

Low cards favor the house because they aid them make winning totals on their hands when he is stiff (has a twelve, 13, fourteen, 15, or 16 total on her first 2 cards).

In casino chemin de fer, you can stay on your stiffs if you want to, but the croupier cannot.

He has no choice to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of playing 21 require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how flush the shoe is in high cards that will bust her.

The high cards favour the player because they might break the house when she hits their stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the player.

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

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

You just need to know at what point the deck is flush or depleted in high cards and you can elevate your wager when the edge is in your favor.

This is a basic breakdown of how card-counting plans work, but gives you an insight into how the logic works.

When wagering on blackjack over an extended time card counting will assist in changing the edge in your favour by approx 2%.