If you love the thrill and adventure of a perfect card game and the elation of winning and making some money with the odds in your favour, wagering on Blackjack is for you.

So, how do you defeat the dealer?

Basically when wagering on twenty-one you are observing the risks and chances of the cards in regard to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards could come from the deck

When playing chemin de fer there is statistically a best way to play each hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you anticipate the chances of cards being dealt from the deck, then you can boost your action amount when the odds are in your favor and decrease them when the edge is not.

You are only going to win under half the hands you bet on, 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 succeed.

Basic strategy and card counting

Since professionals and intellectuals have been studying Blackjack all sorts of complicated plans have arisen, including "counting cards" but although the idea is complicated counting cards is actually very easy when you gamble on chemin de fer.

If when wagering on twenty-one you card count effectively (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can shift the odds to your favor.

Vingt-et-un Basic Strategy

Blackjack basic strategy is amassed around an unsophisticated approach of how you bet depending upon the hand you receive and is mathematically the strongest hand to play without counting cards. It informs you when betting on chemin de fer when you should take another card or stand.

It is remarkably simple to do and is quickly committed to memory and up until then you can find free cards on the internet

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

Card counting shifting the edge in your favour

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting scheme obtain an edge over the gambling den.

The reason for this is simple.

Low cards favour the casino in 21 and high cards favour the gambler.

Low cards favour the casino because they aid him make winning totals on his hands when she is stiff (has a 12, 13, fourteen, fifteen, or sixteen total on her 1st two cards).

In casino blackjack, you can stay on your stiffs if you choose to, but the casino cannot.

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 him.

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

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

You don’t have to compute the numbers of each of the individual card to know when you have an advantage over the dealer.

You simply need to know at what point the deck is flush or poor in high cards and you can up your wager when the odds are in your favor.

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

When playing vingt-et-un over an extended term card counting will assist in shifting the edge in your favour by to around two percent.