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

So, how do you beat the croupier?

Basically when playing chemin de fer you are studying the odds and probabilities of the cards in relation to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards could be dealt from the deck

When playing vingt-et-un there is statistically a best way to play every hand and this is referred to as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you anticipate the chances of cards coming out of the deck, then you are able to boost your wager amount when the edge is in your favor and decrease them when the odds 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 odds are in your favor.

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

Basic tactics and counting cards

Since professionals and academics have been studying Blackjack all sorts of complex plans have been developed, including "counting cards" but although the theory is complex counting cards is actually straightforward when you wager on 21.

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

Vingt-et-un Basic Strategy

Chemin de fer basic strategy is assembled around an unsophisticated approach of how you bet based upon the hand you are dealt and is statistically the best hand to play without card counting. It informs you when gambling on blackjack when you need to hit or stand.

It is extremely easy to do and is quickly memorized and up until then you can find complimentary guides on the internet

Using it when you gamble on vingt-et-un will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to even.

Counting cards getting the edge in your favor

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

The reason for this is easy.

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

Low cards favor the casino because they help them acquire winning totals on his hands when he is stiff (has a 12, thirteen, fourteen, 15, or sixteen total on their initial two cards).

In casino vingt-et-un, you can stay on your stiffs if you choose to, but the dealer cannot.

The casino has no choice to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of gambling on 21 require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the deck is in high cards that will break her.

The high cards favour the player because they may bust the croupier when he hits his stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.

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

You do not have to tally the data of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an edge over the house.

You only need to know at what point the shoe is flush or reduced in high cards and you can increase your action when the edge is in your favour.

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

When gambling on twenty-one over the longer term card counting will aid in changing the expectation in your favor by approximately 2%.