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If you love the thrill and adventure of a good 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 croupier?

Quite simply when playing vingt-et-un you are observing the risks and probabilities of the cards in regard to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards possibly could be dealt from the deck

When wagering on blackjack there is mathematically a best way to play every hand and this is referred to as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you compute the chances of cards being dealt from the deck, then you can increase your action size when the edge is in your favor and lower 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 wager size when the odds are in your favor.

To do this when playing twenty-one you should use basic strategy and card counting to win.

Basic strategy and card counting

Since mathematicians and intellectuals have been studying Blackjack all kinds of abstract systems have arisen, including "counting cards" but even though the theory is complicated card counting is pretty much very easy when you wager on 21.

If when wagering on blackjack you card count effectively (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can change the edge to your favour.

Vingt-et-un Basic Strategy

21 basic strategy is centralized around an uncomplicated approach of how you wager depending upon the cards you are dealt and is statistically the strongest hand to play while not counting cards. It tells you when wagering on twenty-one when you need to hit or hold.

It is remarkably simple to do and is soon memorized and until then you can find no charge guides on the net

Using it when you wager on vingt-et-un will bring down the casino’s edge to near to even.

Counting cards tilting the edge in your favor

Card counting works and players use a card counting approach achieve an edge over the gambling hall.

The reasoning behind this is easy.

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

Low cards favour the dealer because they aid her acquire winning totals on their hands when she is stiff (has a 12, 13, 14, fifteen, or sixteen total on his first two cards).

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

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

The high cards favor the player because they might bust the casino when he hits their stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.

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

You do not have to add up the data of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an edge over the house.

You just need to know at what point the deck is flush or depleted in high cards and you can up your wager when the expectation is in your favor.

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

When gambling on twenty-one over the longer term card counting will help in tilting the expectation in your favour by approx 2%.