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If you like the thrill and adventure of a great card game and the anticipation of winning and earning some cash with the odds in your favor, betting on Blackjack is for you.

So, how do you defeat the casino?

Quite simply when betting on 21 you are studying the risks and probabilities of the cards in relation to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards can come from the shoe

When playing twenty-one there is statistically a better way to play every hand and this is known as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you calculate the odds of cards coming out of the deck, then you will be able to increase your action amount when the odds are in your favor and decrease them when the edge is not.

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

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

Basic strategy and counting cards

Since mathematicians and scientists have been investigating vingt-et-un all sorts of complicated plans have arisen, including but not limited to "counting cards" but although the theory is complicated card counting is all in all straightforward when you play 21.

If when wagering on 21 you count cards effectively (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can tilt the odds to your favor.

Twenty-one Basic Strategy

Vingt-et-un basic strategy is centered around a simple system of how you wager depending upon the hand you receive and is statistically the best hand to play without card counting. It tells you when gambling on 21 when you should hit or stand.

It is very simple to do and is soon committed to memory and up until then you can get free guides on the internet

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

Counting cards getting the expectation in your favour

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting plan achieve an advantage over the casino.

The reason this is easy.

Low cards favour the croupier in vingt-et-un and high cards favor the player.

Low cards favor the house because they aid him make winning totals on their hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, or sixteen total on his 1st 2 cards).

In casino twenty-one, you can hold on your stiffs if you want to, but the casino can’t.

The casino has no choice to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of gambling on blackjack require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how rich the deck is in high cards that will break him.

The high cards favour the player because they may bust the house when he hits her stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the player.

Despite the fact blackjacks are, evenly allocated between the croupier 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 don’t have to tally the data of each of the individual card to know when you have an advantage over the house.

You just need to know when the deck is loaded or reduced in high cards and you can up your action when the odds are in your favour.

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

When wagering on chemin de fer over the longer term card counting will help in shifting the odds in your favor by approximately 2%.