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If you like the blast and adventure of an excellent card game and the anticipation of winning and acquiring some cash with the odds in your favour, betting on Blackjack is for you.

So, how do you beat the casino?

Quite simply when playing vingt-et-un you are watching the odds and chances of the cards in regard to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards possibly could be dealt from the shoe

When gambling on twenty-one there is statistically a better way to play every hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you compute the odds of cards being dealt from the deck, then you will be able to increase your wager size when the edge is in your favor and decrease them when the edge is not.

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

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

Basic tactics and card counting

Since mathematicians and scientists have been studying twenty-one all kinds of abstract systems have arisen, including "counting cards" but although the idea is complex card counting is actually straightforward when you gamble on 21.

If when playing chemin de fer you card count reliably (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can tilt the edge to your favor.

Vingt-et-un Basic Strategy

Chemin de fer basic strategy is assembled around an uncomplicated approach of how you bet based upon the hand you are dealt and is mathematically the strongest hand to use without card counting. It informs you when betting on vingt-et-un when you should take another card or hold.

It is remarkably simple to do and is soon committed to memory and up until then you can get complimentary guides on the net

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

Card counting shifting the expectation in your favour

Card counting works and players use a card counting plan achieve an edge over the gambling den.

The reason this is easy.

Low cards favor the casino in twenty-one and high cards favor the player.

Low cards favour the croupier because they assist her acquire winning totals on his hands when he is stiff (has a 12, 13, 14, 15, or 16 total on her initial 2 cards).

In casino vingt-et-un, you can stand 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 playing twenty-one require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how flush the deck is in high cards that will break him.

The high cards favour the gambler because they may break the dealer when he hits their stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the player.

Though blackjacks are, evenly allocated between the croupier and the gambler, 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 add up the numbers of each of the individual card to know when you have an advantage over the house.

You simply need to know when the shoe is rich or poor in high cards and you can increase your wager when the expectation is in your favour.

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

When gambling on 21 over an extended term card counting will help in shifting the expectation in your favour by approximately 2%.