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If you love the blast and adventure of a perfect card game and the elation of winning and making some money with the odds in your favour, playing Blackjack is for you.

So, how can you defeat the croupier?

Basically when playing twenty-one you are watching the odds and chances of the cards in relation to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards should be dealt from the shoe

When playing twenty-one 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 compute the chances of cards being dealt from the deck, then you can boost your action amount when the edge is in your favor and decrease 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 favour.

To do this when betting on vingt-et-un you have to use basic strategy and card counting to win.

Basic tactics and counting cards

Since professionals and scientists have been investigating 21 all sorts of complex schemes have been developed, including but not limited to "counting cards" but although the idea is complicated counting cards is all in all very easy when you bet on twenty-one.

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

Twenty-one Basic Strategy

Blackjack basic strategy is centralized around an unsophisticated plan of how you wager based upon the cards you are dealt and is mathematically the best hand to play without counting cards. It tells you when wagering on chemin de fer when you should hit or stand.

It is surprisingly simple to do and is quickly memorized and until then you can find free guides on the net

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

Card counting getting the edge in your favour

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting scheme gain an advantage over the casino.

The reasoning behind this is easy.

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

Low cards favour the house because they aid them make winning totals on her hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, 14, 15, or sixteen total on his first two cards).

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

The dealer has no decision to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of wagering on vingt-et-un require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the deck is in high cards that will bust him.

The high cards favor the player because they might bust the house when he hits his stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the gambler.

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

You don’t have to tally the data of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an advantage over the dealer.

You just need to know when the shoe is flush or poor in high cards and you can up your action when the expectation is in your favor.

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

When betting on vingt-et-un over an extended time card counting will aid in changing the odds in your favor by approximately two percent.