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If you like the fulfillment and adventure of a good card game and the elation of winning and acquiring some money with the odds in your favor, playing twenty-one is for you.

So, how do you defeat the croupier?

Basically when betting on blackjack you are watching the risks and chances of the cards in relation to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards might be dealt from the deck

When betting on twenty-one there is statistically a better way to play every hand and this is known as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you compute the odds of cards being dealt from the deck, then you can increase your bet size when the edge is in your favor and lower them when the odds are 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 favor.

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

fundamental strategy and counting cards

Since mathematicians and academics have been studying vingt-et-un all sorts of complicated plans have been developed, including but not limited to "counting cards" but although the idea is complex card counting is all in all very easy when you play twenty-one.

If when betting on 21 you count cards effectively (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can alter the edge to your favor.

Twenty-one Basic Strategy

21 basic strategy is assembled around an unsophisticated system of how you bet depending upon the cards you receive and is statistically the best hand to play without counting cards. It tells you when playing chemin de fer when you need to take another card or hold.

It is surprisingly simple to do and is soon committed to memory and until then you can find free cards on the internet

Using it when you wager on blackjack will bring down the casino’s odds advantage to near to even.

Counting cards shifting the expectation in your favour

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting plan gain an advantage over the gambling den.

The reasoning behind this is simple.

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

Low cards favor the house because they help him make winning totals on her hands when she is stiff (has a 12, thirteen, 14, fifteen, or 16 total on her first 2 cards).

In casino blackjack, you can hold on your stiffs if you want to, but the croupier cannot.

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

The high cards favor the gambler because they may break the house when she hits her stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the gambler.

Though blackjacks are, equally distributed between the house and the player, the fact is that the player gets paid more (3:2) when he receives a blackjack so the player has an edge.

You do not have to count the numbers of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an advantage over the croupier.

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

This is a simple breakdown of why card-counting plans work, but gives you an understanding into why the rationale works.

When playing blackjack over an extended term card counting will help in altering the expectation in your favour by approx 2 percent.