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If you love the thrill and adventure of a perfect card game and the anticipation of winning and acquiring some money with the odds in your favour, wagering on vingt-et-un is for you.

So, how do you beat the casino?

Basically when wagering on twenty-one you are studying the risks and probabilities of the cards in relation to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards might be dealt from the shoe

When betting on blackjack there is mathematically a better way to play each 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 will be able to boost your action size when the odds are in your favor and decrease them when the edge is not.

You are only going to succeed at 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 gambling on blackjack you have to use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

Basic strategy and counting cards

Since mathematicians and scientists have been investigating Blackjack all kinds of complex systems have arisen, including "card counting" but although the theory is complicated card counting is all in all very easy when you gamble on chemin de fer.

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

21 Basic Strategy

Blackjack basic strategy is amassed around an unsophisticated plan of how you bet based upon the cards you are dealt and is mathematically the best hand to use without counting cards. It informs you when betting on blackjack when you should hit or stand.

It’s remarkably easy to do and is soon committed to memory and up until then you can get complimentary guides on the internet

Using it when you bet on twenty-one will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to even.

Counting cards getting the odds in your favour

Card counting works and players use a card counting system obtain an edge over the gambling hall.

The reason this is simple.

Low cards favour the croupier in twenty-one and high cards favor the gambler.

Low cards favour the casino because they help them make winning totals on his hands when she is stiff (has a 12, 13, 14, fifteen, or 16 total on their first two cards).

In casino chemin de fer, you can hold on your stiffs if you want to, but the casino cannot.

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

The high cards favor the gambler because they could break the house when she hits her stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the player.

Despite the fact blackjacks are, evenly allocated between the dealer and the gambler, the fact is that the player gets paid more (3:2) when he gets a blackjack so the player has an edge.

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

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

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

When playing blackjack over an extended time card counting will aid in shifting the edge in your favor by approximately 2%.