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If you like the fulfillment and adventure of a great card game and the anticipation of winning and acquiring some cash with the odds in your favour, gambling on vingt-et-un is for you.

So, how do you defeat the dealer?

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

1. What your hand is

2. What cards possibly could be dealt from the shoe

When gambling on vingt-et-un there is mathematically a better 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 can increase your action size when the edge is in your favor and lower them when they are not.

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

To do this when gambling on 21 you must use basic strategy and card counting to win.

fundamental strategy and counting cards

Since professionals and scientists have been studying vingt-et-un all sorts of complex plans have arisen, including but not limited to "counting cards" but although the theory is complex card counting is actually straightforward when you play twenty-one.

If when playing blackjack you count cards reliably (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can change the edge to your favour.

21 Basic Strategy

Vingt-et-un basic strategy is assembled around an unsophisticated plan of how you wager based upon the cards you are dealt and is statistically the best hand to use without counting cards. It tells you when betting on 21 when you need to take another card or hold.

It’s unbelievably easy to do and is soon memorized and until then you can find complimentary cards on the internet

Using it when you play twenty-one will bring down the casino’s odds advantage to near to even.

Counting cards tilting the edge in your favor

Card counting works and players use a card counting scheme realize an edge over the gambling hall.

The reason for this is easy.

Low cards favor the croupier in 21 and high cards favor the gambler.

Low cards favor the dealer because they help her make winning totals on their hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, fourteen, 15, or sixteen total on his 1st two cards).

In casino vingt-et-un, you can hold on your stiffs if you choose to, but the casino can’t.

She has no choice to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of betting on twenty-one require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the shoe is in high cards that will break her.

The high cards favor the gambler because they might bust the casino when he hits their stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.

Despite the fact blackjacks are, equally dispersed between the casino and the player, 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 count the numbers of each of the individual card to know when you have an edge over the casino.

You only need to know when the deck is rich or reduced in high cards and you can up your bet when the odds are in your favour.

This is a basic breakdown of how card-counting systems work, but gives you an understanding into how the rationale works.

When playing blackjack over the longer term card counting will help in changing the expectation in your favour by approximately two percent.