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If you love the thrill and adventure of an excellent card game and the elation of winning and acquiring some money with the odds in your favor, gambling on twenty-one is for you.

So, how do you defeat the dealer?

Basically when betting on vingt-et-un you are looking at the risks and chances of the cards in regard to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards could be dealt from the shoe

When playing chemin de fer there is statistically a best 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 coming out of the deck, then you are able to boost your wager size when the odds are in your favor and lower them when the odds are not.

You’re only going to succeed at under half the hands you bet on, so it is important that you adjust action size when the odds are in your favour.

To do this when wagering on twenty-one you have to use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

fundamental strategy and card counting

Since professionals and academics have been investigating twenty-one all sorts of abstract plans have been developed, including but not limited to "card counting" but even though the idea is complex counting cards is pretty much straightforward when you play twenty-one.

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

Vingt-et-un Basic Strategy

Blackjack basic strategy is centered around an uncomplicated system of how you wager depending upon the cards you receive and is mathematically the best hand to use without card counting. It informs you when gambling on 21 when you need to take another card or stand.

It’s surprisingly easy to do and is soon memorized and up until then you can find no charge guides on the internet

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

Card counting shifting the expectation in your favor

Card counting works and players use a card counting plan achieve an advantage over the gambling den.

The reason this is simple.

Low cards favor the dealer in chemin de fer and high cards favour the player.

Low cards favour the dealer because they help her acquire winning totals on their hands when he is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, or sixteen total on their initial 2 cards).

In casino twenty-one, you can stay on your stiffs if you want to, but the house cannot.

He has no decision to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of betting on blackjack require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how rich the shoe is in high cards that will break her.

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

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

You don’t have to add up the numbers of each of the individual card to know when you have an edge over the house.

You simply need to know at what point the deck is rich or poor in high cards and you can boost your action when the odds are in your favour.

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

When wagering on blackjack over an extended time card counting will help in tilting the edge in your favor by to around 2%.