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If you love the blast and excitement of a good card game and the excitement of winning and earning some cash with the odds in your favor, wagering on Blackjack is for you.

So, how do you defeat the dealer?

Quite simply when wagering on twenty-one you are watching the risks and probabilities of the cards in relation to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards could come from the shoe

When gambling on chemin de fer there is statistically a best way to play every hand and this is known as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you calculate the chances of cards coming out of the deck, then you are able to increase your action size 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 gamble on, so it is important that you adjust bet size when the risks are in your favor.

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

Basic tactics and card counting

Since professionals and academics have been investigating twenty-one all kinds of complicated schemes have arisen, including "card counting" but although the idea is complicated card counting is actually straightforward when you play twenty-one.

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

Twenty-one Basic Strategy

Vingt-et-un basic strategy is amassed around an uncomplicated plan of how you wager based upon the hand you are dealt and is statistically the best hand to use without counting cards. It tells you when betting on twenty-one when you need to hit or stand.

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

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

Counting cards tilting the expectation in your favour

Card counting works and players use a card counting system gain an edge over the gambling den.

The reason this is simple.

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

Low cards favour the house because they help them acquire winning totals on their hands when he is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, or 16 total on her first 2 cards).

In casino 21, you can stand on your stiffs if you choose to, but the casino can’t.

She has no decision to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of playing vingt-et-un require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the deck is in high cards that will break them.

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

Despite the fact blackjacks are, evenly allocated between the croupier and the gambler, the fact is that the gambler gets paid more (3:2) when she gets a blackjack so the gambler has an advantage.

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

You just need to know at what point the shoe is rich or depleted in high cards and you can boost your wager when the expectation is in your favor.

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

When betting on vingt-et-un over the longer term card counting will assist in shifting the edge in your favour by approx two percent.