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If you like the fulfillment and excitement of an excellent card game and the elation of winning and acquiring some cash with the odds in your favour, betting on Blackjack is for you.

So, how do you beat the dealer?

Quite simply when betting on 21 you are studying the odds and probabilities of the cards in regard to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards should come from the deck

When playing twenty-one there is mathematically a best way to play each hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you calculate the odds of cards being dealt from the deck, then you can boost your bet size when the edge is in your favor and lower them when they are not.

You are only going to succeed at under half the hands you play, so it is important that you adjust wager 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.

Basic tactics and card counting

Since mathematicians and intellectuals have been investigating twenty-one all sorts of complicated schemes have arisen, including "card counting" but even though the theory is complex card counting is all in all very easy when you wager on chemin de fer.

If when betting on blackjack you count cards correctly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can tilt the edge to your favour.

Blackjack Basic Strategy

Chemin de fer basic strategy is centralized around an unsophisticated system of how you wager depending upon the cards you are dealt and is statistically the strongest hand to play without counting cards. It tells you when gambling on 21 when you should take another card or stand.

It’s unbelievably easy to do and is quickly memorized and until then you can get free cards on the net

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

Counting cards shifting the expectation in your favour

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

The reason for this is easy.

Low cards favour the croupier in vingt-et-un and high cards favour the player.

Low cards favor the croupier because they assist her acquire winning totals on his hands when he is stiff (has a 12, thirteen, 14, 15, or 16 total on his first two cards).

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

He has no choice to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of wagering on 21 require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how rich the shoe is in high cards that will bust him.

The high cards favor the gambler because they might bust the croupier when he hits his stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.

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

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

You only need to know at what point the shoe is flush or poor in high cards and you can boost your bet when the expectation is in your favor.

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

When betting on twenty-one over the longer term card counting will assist in tilting the expectation in your favor by approx two percent.