If you love the thrill and adventure of a perfect card game and the anticipation of winning and acquiring some cash with the odds in your favor, wagering on twenty-one is for you.

So, how can you beat the dealer?

Quite simply when betting on blackjack you are tracking the odds and chances of the cards in regard to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards could come from the deck

When playing chemin de fer there is mathematically a best way to play every 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 can increase your action amount when the edge is in your favor and lower them when the odds are not.

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

To do this when wagering on blackjack you should use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

Basic tactics and card counting

Since mathematicians and academics have been investigating vingt-et-un all sorts of complex systems have arisen, including but not limited to "card counting" but even though the idea is complex card counting is pretty much straightforward when you bet on twenty-one.

If when betting on twenty-one you card count correctly (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can alter the edge to your favour.

Vingt-et-un Basic Strategy

Blackjack basic strategy is assembled around an unsophisticated system of how you bet based upon the hand you receive and is statistically the best hand to use while not card counting. It tells you when betting on chemin de fer when you should hit or stand.

It’s surprisingly simple to do and is quickly committed to memory and until then you can find no charge guides on the internet

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

Card counting tilting the expectation in your favor

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting system achieve an edge over the casino.

The reasoning behind this is simple.

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

Low cards favor the croupier because they assist her make winning totals on her hands when she is stiff (has a 12, thirteen, 14, 15, or 16 total on their 1st 2 cards).

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

The casino has no decision to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of playing vingt-et-un 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 dealer when he hits their stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.

Though blackjacks are, equally dispensed between the casino and the player, the fact is that the player gets paid more (3:2) when he receives a blackjack so the player has an advantage.

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

You just need to know when the shoe is rich or depleted in high cards and you can elevate your bet when the edge is in your favor.

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

When gambling on blackjack over an extended time card counting will help in tilting the odds in your favour by approx two percent.