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If you love the thrill and excitement of a good card game and the anticipation of winning and making some cash with the odds in your favour, wagering on 21 is for you.

So, how do you beat the house?

Basically when betting on blackjack you are looking at the risks and probabilities of the cards in relation to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards might come from the shoe

When betting on vingt-et-un there is mathematically a better way to play every hand and this is referred to as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you anticipate the chances of cards being dealt from the deck, then you can boost your bet size when the edge is in your favor and lower them when the edge is not.

You are 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 favour.

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

Basic strategy and card counting

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

If when gambling on 21 you card count correctly (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can alter the odds to your favour.

Vingt-et-un Basic Strategy

Chemin de fer basic strategy is amassed around an uncomplicated plan of how you bet depending upon the cards you receive and is statistically the best hand to use while not card counting. It informs you when gambling on 21 when you should hit or hold.

It is unbelievably easy to do and is quickly memorized and until then you can find no charge guides on the net

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

Counting cards tilting the expectation in your favour

Card counting works and players use a card counting system achieve an edge over the casino.

The reason this is easy.

Low cards favor the dealer in blackjack and high cards favor the gambler.

Low cards favour the croupier because they assist him make winning totals on their hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, 13, 14, fifteen, or sixteen total on his 1st two cards).

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

The house has no choice to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of betting on 21 require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how rich the shoe is in high cards that will break him.

The high cards favor the player because they could bust the dealer when he hits her stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the gambler.

Despite the fact blackjacks are, evenly distributed between the croupier and the gambler, the fact is that the player gets paid more (3:2) when she receives a blackjack so the gambler has an advantage.

You do not have to tally the data of each of the individual card to know when you have an advantage over the house.

You only need to know when the shoe is flush or poor in high cards and you can up your wager when the edge is in your favor.

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

When playing blackjack over an extended term card counting will help in tilting the expectation in your favor by approximately 2%.