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If you like the blast and excitement of a perfect card game and the excitement of winning and earning some cash with the odds in your favour, gambling on Blackjack is for you.

So, how can you defeat the croupier?

Basically when gambling on twenty-one you are looking at the risks and chances of the cards in regard to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards possibly could be dealt from the deck

When enjoying blackjack there is statistically a best way to play every hand and this is known as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you determine the chances of cards being dealt from the deck, then you will be able to boost your wager amount when the odds are in your favor and lower them when they are not.

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

To do this when wagering on 21 you have to use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

fundamental strategy and counting cards

Since professionals and intellectuals have been investigating chemin de fer all kinds of abstract systems have been developed, including "card counting" but although the idea is complicated counting cards is pretty much very easy when you wager on Blackjack.

If when playing 21 you card count correctly (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can alter the edge to your favour.

Vingt-et-un Basic Strategy

Vingt-et-un basic strategy is centered around an uncomplicated plan of how you bet depending upon the hand you are dealt and is mathematically the strongest hand to use without counting cards. It informs you when playing chemin de fer when you should take another card or hold.

It is surprisingly easy to do and is soon committed to memory and up until then you can get no charge guides on the net

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

Counting cards shifting the expectation in your favor

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

The reason this is simple.

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

Low cards favor the dealer because they help her acquire winning totals on their hands when he is stiff (has a twelve, 13, fourteen, fifteen, or sixteen total on his first two cards).

In casino blackjack, you can stand on your stiffs if you choose to, but the house can’t.

She has no decision to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of gambling on vingt-et-un require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how flush the deck is in high cards that will break them.

The high cards favor the gambler because they could bust the casino when she hits their stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.

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

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

You only need to know at what point the shoe is loaded or depleted in high cards and you can boost your bet when the expectation is in your favor.

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

When wagering on 21 over an extended time card counting will assist in tilting the expectation in your favor by approx 2%.