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If you love the blast and excitement of a perfect card game and the elation of winning and acquiring some cash with the odds in your favour, wagering on Blackjack is for you.

So, how do you defeat the casino?

Quite simply when wagering on vingt-et-un you are studying the odds and probabilities of the cards in relation to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards could be dealt from the shoe

When gambling on 21 there is mathematically a better way to play every hand and this is known as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you determine the odds of cards being dealt from the deck, then you will be able to increase your action 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 play, so it is important that you adjust bet size when the risks are in your favour.

To do this when betting on blackjack you have to use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

Basic strategy and counting cards

Since professionals and academics have been studying Blackjack all kinds of complicated schemes have arisen, including "card counting" but although the theory is complex card counting is pretty much very easy when you play 21.

If when playing 21 you count cards effectively (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can shift the odds to your favour.

21 Basic Strategy

Twenty-one basic strategy is centralized around a basic system of how you bet depending upon the hand you receive and is mathematically the best hand to use without counting cards. It informs you when wagering on twenty-one when you should take another card or hold.

It’s unbelievably simple to do and is quickly committed to memory and up until then you can get free guides on the web

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

Counting cards tilting the odds in your favor

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

The reasoning behind this is simple.

Low cards favour the casino in chemin de fer and high cards favour the gambler.

Low cards favour the house because they help him acquire winning totals on her hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, 13, fourteen, 15, or 16 total on his initial two cards).

In casino vingt-et-un, you can hold on your stiffs if you want to, but the dealer can’t.

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

The high cards favour the player because they could break the house when he hits his stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.

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

You don’t have to count the data of each of the individual card to know when you have an edge over the croupier.

You simply need to know at what point the deck is rich or reduced in high cards and you can jump your action when the expectation is in your favor.

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

When wagering on vingt-et-un over the longer term card counting will help in altering the edge in your favor by approximately 2%.