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If you love the thrill and excitement of a great card game and the excitement of winning and making some money with the odds in your favor, wagering on 21 is for you.

So, how can you beat the dealer?

Basically when betting on twenty-one you are studying the risks and probabilities of the cards in regard to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards could be dealt from the deck

When gambling on blackjack there is mathematically a better way to play every hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you anticipate the chances of cards being dealt from the deck, then you can boost your action size when the odds are in your favor and decrease them when the edge is 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 wagering on blackjack you have to use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

Basic strategy and counting cards

Since mathematicians and scientists have been studying Blackjack all sorts of complex plans have been developed, including "card counting" but even though the theory is complicated card counting is pretty much straightforward when you gamble on 21.

If when betting on twenty-one you card count properly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can shift the odds to your favor.

Vingt-et-un Basic Strategy

Twenty-one basic strategy is centered around a simple system of how you wager depending upon the hand you are dealt and is mathematically the strongest hand to use without card counting. It informs you when playing vingt-et-un when you need to hit or hold.

It’s surprisingly easy to do and is quickly memorized and until then you can find no charge guides on the web

Using it when you play chemin de fer will bring down the casino’s edge to near to zero.

Card counting getting the expectation in your favour

Card counting works and players use a card counting plan obtain an advantage over the gambling den.

The reason for this is simple.

Low cards favor the house in twenty-one and high cards favor the player.

Low cards favor the croupier because they assist her acquire winning totals on her hands when he is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, 14, 15, or 16 total on their initial 2 cards).

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

The casino has no choice to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of betting on blackjack require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how rich the deck is in high cards that will bust him.

The high cards favor the player because they may break the house when she hits her stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.

Although blackjacks are, evenly dispensed 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 advantage.

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

You simply need to know at what point the deck is rich or depleted in high cards and you can up your wager when the odds are in your favour.

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

When playing chemin de fer over the longer term card counting will aid in shifting the expectation in your favor by approximately 2%.