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If you love the blast and excitement of a great card game and the elation of winning and earning some money with the odds in your favour, gambling on vingt-et-un is for you.

So, how can you beat the croupier?

Quite simply when playing blackjack you are tracking the odds and chances of the cards in regard to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards possibly could be dealt from the deck

When enjoying blackjack there is statistically a better way to play each hand and this is known as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you compute the odds of cards being dealt from the deck, then you are able to increase your wager size when the edge is in your favor and lower 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 wager size when the odds are in your favor.

To do this when playing twenty-one you have to use basic strategy and card counting to win.

Basic strategy and counting cards

Since mathematicians and intellectuals have been investigating chemin de fer all kinds of complex systems have arisen, including but not limited to "card counting" but although the theory is complex counting cards is all in all straightforward when you gamble on 21.

If when playing twenty-one you card count properly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can tilt the edge to your favour.

Twenty-one Basic Strategy

Twenty-one basic strategy is centered around a simple approach of how you bet based upon the cards you are dealt and is statistically the best hand to play without counting cards. It informs you when betting on chemin de fer when you need to take another card or hold.

It is unbelievably simple to do and is quickly committed to memory and up until then you can find complimentary guides on the net

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

Card counting shifting the expectation in your favor

Card counting works and players use a card counting approach achieve an advantage over the casino.

The reason this is easy.

Low cards favor the house in 21 and high cards favour the player.

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

In casino twenty-one, 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 advantage. The rules of wagering on 21 require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how flush the deck is in high cards that will break her.

The high cards favor the gambler because they may bust the dealer when she hits her stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.

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

You don’t have to count the numbers of each of the individual card to know when you have an advantage over the house.

You simply need to know when the deck is flush or reduced in high cards and you can boost your action when the edge is in your favor.

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

When wagering on 21 over the longer term card counting will assist in shifting the odds in your favor by to around two percent.