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If you like the blast and adventure of a great card game and the anticipation of winning and making some cash with the odds in your favour, gambling on 21 is for you.

So, how do you beat the casino?

Basically when wagering on vingt-et-un you are looking at the odds and probabilities of the cards in relation to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards can be dealt from the shoe

When gambling on 21 there is mathematically a better way to play every hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you compute the chances of cards being dealt from the deck, then you will be able to boost your bet size when the odds are in your favor and decrease them when they are not.

You’re only going to succeed at under half the hands you gamble on, so it is important that you adjust action size when the odds are in your favour.

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

Basic strategy and card counting

Since mathematicians and scientists have been investigating 21 all kinds of complicated systems have been developed, including "card counting" but even though the theory is complex card counting is all in all very easy when you gamble on twenty-one.

If when playing chemin de fer you count cards properly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can tilt the edge to your favor.

21 Basic Strategy

Twenty-one basic strategy is centered around an uncomplicated system of how you wager depending upon the hand you are dealt and is statistically the strongest hand to play without counting cards. It informs you when playing 21 when you need to take another card or hold.

It’s surprisingly easy to do and is quickly committed to memory and up until then you can find no charge guides on the internet

Using it when you gamble on chemin de fer will bring down the casino’s odds advantage to near to zero.

Card counting getting the edge in your favour

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting approach achieve an edge over the casino.

The reason this is easy.

Low cards favor the casino in blackjack and high cards favor the player.

Low cards favour the croupier because they help him make winning totals on their hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, 13, 14, 15, or sixteen total on his first two cards).

In casino blackjack, you can stay on your stiffs if you want to, but the casino can’t.

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

The high cards favour the gambler because they could break the croupier when she hits her stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.

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

You don’t have to add up the numbers of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an edge over the house.

You simply need to know at what point the shoe is flush or poor in high cards and you can up your action when the odds are in your favor.

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

When gambling on twenty-one over the longer term card counting will assist in changing the edge in your favor by approximately two percent.