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If you like the fulfillment and excitement of a good card game and the anticipation of winning and acquiring some money with the odds in your favor, betting on Blackjack is for you.

So, how can you defeat the casino?

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

1. What your hand is

2. What cards could be dealt from the deck

When enjoying vingt-et-un there is statistically a better way to play each hand and this is referred to as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you compute the chances of cards coming out of the deck, then you will be able to increase your wager amount when the edge is in your favor and decrease them when the odds are not.

You’re only going to succeed at under half the hands you bet on, so it is important that you adjust bet 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 strategy and card counting

Since professionals and scientists have been investigating twenty-one all kinds of complex plans have been developed, including "card counting" but although the idea is complicated card counting is all in all very easy when you gamble on 21.

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

Twenty-one Basic Strategy

Twenty-one basic strategy is amassed around a basic plan of how you bet depending upon the cards you are dealt and is mathematically the best hand to play without counting cards. It tells you when playing twenty-one when you need to take another card or stand.

It’s surprisingly simple to do and is soon memorized and until then you can find no charge cards on the internet

Using it when you wager on vingt-et-un will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to zero.

Counting cards shifting the expectation in your favour

Card counting works and players use a card counting plan realize an edge over the casino.

The reason for this is easy.

Low cards favour the house in 21 and high cards favor the player.

Low cards favor the house because they assist her make winning totals on his hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, 13, fourteen, fifteen, or sixteen total on his first two cards).

In casino 21, you can stay on your stiffs if you choose to, but the house cannot.

The casino has no choice to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of playing blackjack require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how flush the deck is in high cards that will bust them.

The high cards favour the gambler because they might break the dealer when she hits his stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the gambler.

Though blackjacks are, equally distributed between the dealer and the gambler, the fact is that the player gets paid more (3:2) when she receives a blackjack so the player has an edge.

You do not have to compute the numbers of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an advantage over the croupier.

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

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

When wagering on vingt-et-un over an extended time card counting will aid in altering the expectation in your favour by approx two percent.