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If you like the fulfillment and excitement of a great card game and the elation of winning and making some cash with the odds in your favor, gambling on 21 is for you.

So, how do you defeat the dealer?

Quite simply when gambling on blackjack you are studying the odds and probabilities of the cards in relation to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards should be dealt from the deck

When betting on 21 there is statistically a better way to play every hand and this is referred to as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you anticipate the odds of cards being dealt from the deck, then you will be able to increase your wager size when the edge is in your favor and decrease them when the edge is not.

You are only going to win under half the hands you play, so it is important that you adjust wager size when the odds are in your favor.

To do this when playing twenty-one you should use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

Basic tactics and counting cards

Since professionals and intellectuals have been studying vingt-et-un all sorts of abstract schemes have arisen, including but not limited to "card counting" but although the theory is complicated counting cards is actually very easy when you wager on Blackjack.

If when gambling on vingt-et-un you card count effectively (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can alter the odds to your favour.

Twenty-one Basic Strategy

21 basic strategy is centered around a simple plan of how you wager based upon the cards you are dealt and is mathematically the best hand to use while not card counting. It tells you when playing chemin de fer when you should take another card or hold.

It’s surprisingly simple to do and is soon memorized and until then you can find free guides on the internet

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

Counting cards getting the edge in your favour

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

The reason this is easy.

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

Low cards favor the house because they aid them make winning totals on their hands when he is stiff (has a 12, thirteen, fourteen, 15, or sixteen total on their 1st two cards).

In casino blackjack, you can stand on your stiffs if you choose to, but the dealer cannot.

She 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 flush the shoe is in high cards that will bust them.

The high cards favour the player because they may bust the dealer when she hits their stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the gambler.

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

You do not have to add up the data of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an advantage over the dealer.

You simply need to know at what point the shoe is loaded or reduced in high cards and you can elevate your bet when the odds are in your favour.

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

When playing blackjack over an extended time card counting will aid in altering the odds in your favour by approx two percent.