If you love the fulfillment and adventure of a good card game and the elation of winning and earning some cash with the odds in your favour, betting on Blackjack is for you.

So, how do you beat the dealer?

Quite simply when wagering on blackjack you are observing the odds and chances of the cards in regard to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards could come from the deck

When gambling on 21 there is statistically a best way to play every hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you calculate the chances of cards coming out of the deck, then you can increase your action amount when the odds are in your favor and decrease them when the odds are not.

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

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

Basic tactics and card counting

Since professionals and academics have been investigating 21 all sorts of abstract plans have arisen, including "counting cards" but although the idea is complex counting cards is pretty much straightforward when you gamble on Blackjack.

If when gambling on chemin de fer you card count reliably (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can change the odds to your favour.

21 Basic Strategy

Vingt-et-un basic strategy is centralized around an uncomplicated plan of how you wager based upon the hand you are dealt and is mathematically the strongest hand to play while not card counting. It tells you when betting on vingt-et-un when you need to take another card or hold.

It is extremely easy to do and is soon memorized and until then you can get free guides on the net

Using it when you bet on 21 will bring down the casino’s edge to near to zero.

Counting cards tilting the odds in your favor

Card counting works and players use a card counting approach achieve an advantage over the casino.

The reason this is easy.

Low cards favour the house in chemin de fer and high cards favor the gambler.

Low cards favour the house because they help them make winning totals on her hands when he is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, 14, fifteen, or 16 total on her initial 2 cards).

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

The house has no decision to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of betting on vingt-et-un require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how flush the shoe is in high cards that will bust them.

The high cards favour the gambler because they could bust the casino when he hits her stiffs and also Aces and Tens means blackjack for the gambler.

Though blackjacks are, evenly dispersed between the casino and the gambler, 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 tally the data of each of the individual card to know when you have an edge over the house.

You simply need to know when the shoe is flush or poor in high cards and you can jump your action when the edge is in your favour.

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

When wagering on twenty-one over the longer term card counting will aid in shifting the expectation in your favour by to around 2 percent.