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If you like the fulfillment and adventure of a good card game and the anticipation of winning and acquiring some money with the odds in your favor, wagering on twenty-one is for you.

So, how can you defeat the casino?

Basically when betting on 21 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 gambling on blackjack there is mathematically a better way to play every hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you anticipate the chances of cards coming out of the deck, then you can increase your wager amount 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 gamble on, so it is important that you adjust bet size when the odds are in your favor.

To do this when wagering on blackjack you must use basic strategy and card counting to win.

fundamental strategy and card counting

Since mathematicians and academics have been studying twenty-one all sorts of complex schemes have arisen, including "counting cards" but although the idea is complex counting cards is all in all straightforward when you play chemin de fer.

If when gambling on 21 you count cards reliably (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can tilt the odds to your favour.

Twenty-one Basic Strategy

Chemin de fer basic strategy is amassed around a simple plan of how you bet depending upon the hand you are dealt and is statistically the strongest hand to play while not card counting. It informs you when gambling on vingt-et-un when you should hit or hold.

It’s very simple to do and is quickly memorized and until then you can get free cards on the internet

Using it when you bet on 21 will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to zero.

Counting cards tilting the odds in your favour

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting approach obtain an edge over the casino.

The reasoning behind this is easy.

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

Low cards favor the dealer because they aid them acquire winning totals on their hands when he is stiff (has a 12, thirteen, fourteen, 15, or 16 total on her initial 2 cards).

In casino blackjack, you can stand 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 edge. The rules of gambling on blackjack require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how flush the shoe is in high cards that will break her.

The high cards favour the gambler because they might bust the house when she hits her stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.

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

You don’t have to count the numbers of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an edge over the dealer.

You just need to know at what point the shoe is rich or poor in high cards and you can jump your bet when the expectation is in your favour.

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

When wagering on 21 over an extended term card counting will assist in tilting the expectation in your favour by to around 2 percent.