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If you like the thrill and adventure of a great card game and the excitement of winning and making some money with the odds in your favour, playing Blackjack is for you.

So, how do you beat the house?

Basically when wagering on twenty-one you are observing the odds and chances of the cards in regard to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards should be dealt from the shoe

When wagering on vingt-et-un there is statistically a better way to play every hand and this is known as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you calculate the chances of cards coming out of the deck, then you will be able to boost your bet amount when the edge is in your favor and lower them when they are not.

You are only going to win 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 should use basic strategy and card counting to win.

Basic strategy and card counting

Since professionals and scientists have been studying 21 all sorts of complicated systems have arisen, including "card counting" but even though the theory is complicated counting cards is pretty much very easy when you wager on Blackjack.

If when playing 21 you count cards reliably (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can change the odds to your favour.

Vingt-et-un Basic Strategy

Chemin de fer basic strategy is centralized around a simple system of how you bet depending upon the hand you receive and is statistically the best hand to play while not card counting. It informs you when gambling on vingt-et-un when you need to hit or hold.

It is surprisingly easy to do and is quickly memorized and up until then you can get free cards on the web

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

Counting cards getting the odds in your favour

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

The reason for this is easy.

Low cards favor the dealer in 21 and high cards favor the gambler.

Low cards favour the house because they aid her make winning totals on her hands when he is stiff (has a 12, 13, 14, 15, or sixteen total on their first 2 cards).

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

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

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

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

You do not have to count the data of each of the individual card to know when you have an edge over the dealer.

You just need to know when the deck is rich or poor in high cards and you can increase your action when the expectation is in your favor.

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

When wagering on 21 over the longer term card counting will aid in changing the expectation in your favour by approximately 2 percent.