If you like the fulfillment and excitement of a perfect card game and the elation of winning and earning some money with the odds in your favor, playing vingt-et-un is for you.

So, how do you defeat the house?

Basically when playing blackjack you are looking at the odds and chances of the cards in regard to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards can come from the deck

When enjoying chemin de fer there is statistically a better way to play every hand and this is referred to as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you determine the odds of cards being dealt from the deck, then you can boost your bet size when the edge is in your favor and decrease them when the edge is not.

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

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

Basic strategy and counting cards

Since mathematicians and intellectuals have been studying twenty-one all sorts of abstract plans have been developed, including "card counting" but even though the idea is complicated card counting is actually straightforward when you bet on twenty-one.

If when playing vingt-et-un you count cards reliably (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can shift the odds to your favor.

Blackjack Basic Strategy

Twenty-one basic strategy is assembled around an uncomplicated plan of how you bet based upon the hand you are dealt and is mathematically the best hand to use while not counting cards. It tells you when gambling on 21 when you need to take another card or hold.

It’s unbelievably easy to do and is quickly committed to memory and up until then you can get free guides on the net

Using it when you bet on twenty-one will bring down the casino’s edge to near to zero.

Card counting getting the odds in your favor

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting plan obtain an edge over the casino.

The reasoning behind this is simple.

Low cards favor the casino in chemin de fer and high cards favour the gambler.

Low cards favor the casino because they help her acquire winning totals on her hands when she is stiff (has a 12, thirteen, 14, 15, or 16 total on their 1st two cards).

In casino chemin de fer, you can hold on your stiffs if you want to, but the croupier can’t.

The house has no decision to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of betting on vingt-et-un require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the deck is in high cards that will bust him.

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

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

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

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

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

When playing vingt-et-un over the longer term card counting will help in shifting the odds in your favour by to around two percent.