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If you like the blast and adventure of a good card game and the anticipation of winning and making some money with the odds in your favour, wagering on twenty-one is for you.

So, how do you beat the dealer?

Basically when gambling on 21 you are tracking the risks and probabilities of the cards in relation to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards might be dealt from the shoe

When enjoying 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 bet size when the edge is in your favor and lower them when the edge is not.

You are only going to win under half the hands you gamble on, so it is important that you adjust bet size when the odds are in your favour.

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

fundamental strategy and counting cards

Since professionals and scientists have been studying Blackjack all sorts of complex schemes have arisen, including "card counting" but even though the theory is complicated card counting is actually very easy when you wager on Blackjack.

If when playing blackjack you card count effectively (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can tilt the edge to your favour.

Blackjack Basic Strategy

21 basic strategy is centralized around an unsophisticated system of how you wager based upon the cards you are dealt and is mathematically the strongest hand to play without card counting. It tells you when gambling on twenty-one when you should hit or hold.

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

Using it when you play twenty-one will bring down the casino’s edge to near to zero.

Counting cards tilting the odds in your favor

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting scheme achieve an advantage over the gambling hall.

The reasoning behind this is simple.

Low cards favor the dealer in vingt-et-un and high cards favor the player.

Low cards favour the dealer because they assist him make winning totals on his hands when he is stiff (has a 12, 13, fourteen, 15, or 16 total on their 1st 2 cards).

In casino 21, you can hold on your stiffs if you want to, but the house can’t.

The dealer has no decision to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of wagering on 21 require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how rich the shoe is in high cards that will break her.

The high cards favour the player because they might break the dealer when he hits his stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.

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

You do not have to tally the data of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an edge over the house.

You just need to know when the deck is rich or reduced in high cards and you can increase your bet when the expectation is in your favor.

This is a basic account of how card-counting schemes work, but gives you an understanding into why the logic works.

When betting on twenty-one over the longer term card counting will help in shifting the expectation in your favor by to around 2 percent.