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If you love the fulfillment and excitement of a great card game and the anticipation of winning and making some cash with the odds in your favour, gambling on twenty-one is for you.

So, how do you defeat the casino?

Basically when wagering on twenty-one you are tracking the risks and chances of the cards in regard to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards might come from the deck

When enjoying blackjack there is statistically 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 being dealt from the deck, then you are able to increase your wager amount when the edge is in your favor and lower 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 action size when the risks are in your favor.

To do this when playing vingt-et-un you should use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

fundamental strategy and counting cards

Since professionals and intellectuals have been investigating twenty-one all sorts of abstract 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 count cards correctly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can tilt the odds to your favor.

Blackjack Basic Strategy

21 basic strategy is amassed around an unsophisticated system of how you wager based upon the hand you are dealt and is statistically the strongest hand to use while not card counting. It tells you when gambling on twenty-one when you should hit or hold.

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

Using it when you wager on chemin de fer will bring down the casino’s odds advantage to near to even.

Card counting tilting the odds in your favor

Card counting works and players use a card counting approach gain an advantage over the gambling den.

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 assist them make winning totals on his hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, fourteen, 15, or 16 total on his initial 2 cards).

In casino blackjack, you can stay on your stiffs if you want to, but the dealer cannot.

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

The high cards favor the player because they could break the casino when he hits his stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.

Though blackjacks are, evenly divided 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 edge.

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

You just need to know at what point the deck is loaded or poor in high cards and you can increase your wager when the expectation is in your favour.

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

When wagering on blackjack over the longer term card counting will assist in tilting the expectation in your favour by approx 2%.