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If you like the blast and adventure of an excellent card game and the anticipation of winning and acquiring some money with the odds in your favor, playing twenty-one is for you.

So, how do you beat the casino?

Quite simply when playing vingt-et-un you are looking at the risks and probabilities of the cards in relation to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards can be dealt from the shoe

When gambling on vingt-et-un there is mathematically a better way to play each hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you compute the chances of cards coming out of the deck, then you will be able to increase your action amount when the edge is 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 bet size when the odds are in your favour.

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

fundamental strategy and counting cards

Since mathematicians and intellectuals have been investigating twenty-one all sorts of complicated schemes have arisen, including "card counting" but although the idea is complicated card counting is actually straightforward when you bet on twenty-one.

If when gambling on vingt-et-un you count cards effectively (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can alter the edge to your favour.

21 Basic Strategy

21 basic strategy is assembled around an uncomplicated plan of how you bet based upon the hand you receive and is mathematically the best hand to use without counting cards. It tells you when playing twenty-one when you should take another card or hold.

It is surprisingly easy to do and is soon memorized and up until then you can get complimentary guides on the web

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

Card counting shifting the expectation in your favor

Card counting works and players use a card counting plan realize an edge over the casino.

The reason this is easy.

Low cards favor the house in vingt-et-un and high cards favor the gambler.

Low cards favor the croupier because they aid her make winning totals on their hands when he is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, 14, 15, or 16 total on their 1st 2 cards).

In casino blackjack, you can stand on your stiffs if you want to, but the casino cannot.

The casino has no decision to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of gambling on twenty-one require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how flush the shoe is in high cards that will bust him.

The high cards favor the player because they could break the croupier when he hits their stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.

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

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

You simply need to know at what point the shoe is rich or reduced in high cards and you can up your wager when the odds are in your favor.

This is a simple commentary of why card-counting plans work, but gives you an understanding into why the rationale works.

When playing 21 over the longer term card counting will assist in changing the expectation in your favour by to around 2%.