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If you love the thrill and excitement of a great card game and the anticipation of winning and earning some cash with the odds in your favor, betting on Blackjack is for you.

So, how can you defeat the casino?

Basically when playing vingt-et-un you are tracking the odds and chances of the cards in regard to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards might come from the shoe

When betting on 21 there is statistically a best way to play each hand and this is known as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you anticipate the odds of cards coming out of the deck, then you are able to increase your wager size when the odds are in your favor and lower them when the odds are not.

You are only going to win under half the hands you play, so it is important that you adjust action size when the odds are in your favour.

To do this when playing 21 you must use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

Basic tactics and card counting

Since professionals and intellectuals have been studying 21 all sorts of complicated plans have been developed, including "card counting" but even though the theory is complex card counting is actually straightforward when you wager on chemin de fer.

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

Blackjack Basic Strategy

Twenty-one basic strategy is centralized around a simple system of how you bet depending upon the hand you are dealt and is mathematically the strongest hand to play while not counting cards. It tells you when wagering on chemin de fer when you should take another card or stand.

It is extremely simple to do and is soon memorized and up until then you can get free guides on the net

Using it when you wager on blackjack will bring down the casino’s edge to near to even.

Counting cards tilting the edge in your favor

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting approach gain an advantage over the gambling hall.

The reasoning behind this is easy.

Low cards favor the house in twenty-one and high cards favor the player.

Low cards favour the casino because they aid them acquire winning totals on his hands when he is stiff (has a 12, 13, fourteen, 15, or sixteen total on their 1st two cards).

In casino chemin de fer, you can stay on your stiffs if you want to, but the casino cannot.

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

The high cards favor the gambler because they may break the casino when she hits his stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.

Although blackjacks are, evenly distributed between the casino and the gambler, the fact is that the gambler gets paid more (3:2) when he gets a blackjack so the player 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 only need to know when the shoe is rich or poor in high cards and you can jump your bet when the edge is in your favor.

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

When betting on vingt-et-un over the longer term card counting will aid in altering the edge in your favour by to around 2%.