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If you like the blast and adventure of a perfect card game and the excitement of winning and earning some money with the odds in your favour, gambling on 21 is for you.

So, how do you beat the house?

Basically when playing blackjack you are watching the odds and probabilities of the cards in relation to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards might be dealt from the shoe

When playing twenty-one 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 calculate the chances of cards coming out of the deck, then you can boost your bet size when the edge is in your favor and lower them when the odds are not.

You’re only going to succeed at under half the hands you play, so it is important that you adjust bet size when the odds are in your favour.

To do this when playing 21 you should use basic strategy and card counting to win.

Basic strategy and card counting

Since professionals and intellectuals have been investigating 21 all kinds of complicated plans have been developed, including "counting cards" but although the theory is complicated counting cards is pretty much very easy when you gamble on twenty-one.

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

21 Basic Strategy

Vingt-et-un basic strategy is assembled around a simple approach of how you wager depending upon the hand you receive and is statistically the strongest hand to play while not card counting. It tells you when wagering on 21 when you need to hit or hold.

It is unbelievably simple to do and is quickly memorized and up until then you can find free guides on the web

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

Card counting getting the odds in your favor

Card counting works and players use a card counting plan realize an advantage over the gambling hall.

The reason for this is simple.

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

Low cards favor the casino because they assist her acquire winning totals on his hands when he is stiff (has a 12, thirteen, 14, 15, or sixteen total on his first two cards).

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

The casino has no choice to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of playing vingt-et-un require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how flush the deck is in high cards that will break her.

The high cards favor the player because they may bust the croupier when she hits their stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.

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

You don’t have to count the data of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an advantage over the casino.

You just need to know when the deck is flush or poor in high cards and you can up your bet when the expectation is in your favour.

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

When wagering on chemin de fer over the longer term card counting will aid in tilting the expectation in your favor by approx two percent.