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If you like the blast and adventure of a great card game and the excitement of winning and earning some cash with the odds in your favor, playing twenty-one is for you.

So, how can you beat the house?

Basically when betting on twenty-one you are watching the odds and chances of the cards in relation to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards should be dealt from the shoe

When wagering on 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 compute the chances of cards coming out of the deck, then you are able to increase your bet 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 gamble on, so it is important that you adjust action size when the risks are in your favor.

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

Basic strategy and card counting

Since professionals and intellectuals have been studying Blackjack all sorts of complicated systems have been developed, including but not limited to "card counting" but even though the idea is complicated card counting is actually straightforward when you bet on 21.

If when gambling on blackjack you card count properly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can shift the odds to your favour.

Vingt-et-un Basic Strategy

Twenty-one basic strategy is centralized around a basic plan of how you bet depending upon the hand you are dealt and is mathematically the strongest hand to use without card counting. It informs you when playing blackjack when you should take another card or stand.

It is surprisingly easy to do and is soon memorized and up until then you can find complimentary guides on the web

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

Counting cards tilting the expectation in your favour

Card counting works and players use a card counting scheme obtain an advantage over the gambling den.

The reasoning behind this is easy.

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

Low cards favour the house because they aid them acquire winning totals on their hands when he is stiff (has a 12, thirteen, fourteen, 15, or 16 total on his initial two cards).

In casino vingt-et-un, you can stay on your stiffs if you choose to, but the croupier can’t.

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

The high cards favour the gambler because they could bust the casino when he hits their stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.

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

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

You only need to know at what point the deck is flush or poor in high cards and you can increase your bet when the odds are in your favor.

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

When betting on twenty-one over the longer term card counting will help in altering the edge in your favour by approx 2 percent.