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If you like the blast and excitement of a great card game and the elation of winning and making some money with the odds in your favor, wagering on Blackjack is for you.

So, how do you defeat the dealer?

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

1. What your hand is

2. What cards should be dealt from the deck

When gambling on 21 there is mathematically a best way to play every hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you anticipate the chances of cards being dealt from the deck, then you are able to boost your action amount when the odds are in your favor and lower them when the edge is not.

You’re 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 betting on 21 you have to use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

Basic tactics and card counting

Since mathematicians and scientists have been investigating 21 all kinds of abstract schemes have been developed, including but not limited to "counting cards" but even though the idea is complicated card counting is all in all straightforward when you play twenty-one.

If when betting on vingt-et-un you count cards reliably (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can alter the edge to your favour.

Blackjack Basic Strategy

Blackjack basic strategy is centralized around a simple system of how you wager depending upon the cards you are dealt and is mathematically the best hand to play without counting cards. It tells you when wagering on 21 when you should take another card or hold.

It is unbelievably easy to do and is soon committed to memory and up until then you can find free cards on the net

Using it when you play chemin de fer will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to zero.

Counting cards getting the odds in your favor

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

The reason this is easy.

Low cards favor the house in vingt-et-un and high cards favor the gambler.

Low cards favor the croupier because they aid them make winning totals on his hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, 14, 15, or sixteen total on their first 2 cards).

In casino chemin de fer, you can stay on your stiffs if you want to, but the croupier can’t.

She has no decision to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of wagering on blackjack require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how flush the deck is in high cards that will bust her.

The high cards favour the player because they may break the croupier when he hits his stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.

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

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

You only need to know at what point the deck is loaded or reduced in high cards and you can jump your action when the expectation is in your favor.

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

When betting on 21 over an extended term card counting will help in shifting the edge in your favour by approx 2%.