If you love the blast and excitement of an excellent card game and the elation of winning and making some cash with the odds in your favour, playing 21 is for you.

So, how can you beat the casino?

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

1. What your hand is

2. What cards possibly could be dealt from the shoe

When betting on twenty-one there is statistically a best way to play each hand and this is known as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you compute the chances of cards being dealt from the deck, then you are able to increase your wager size when the odds are in your favor and lower them when the edge is not.

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

To do this when betting on twenty-one you should use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

fundamental strategy and card counting

Since mathematicians and academics have been studying vingt-et-un all sorts of complex schemes have arisen, including "card counting" but even though the theory is complicated counting cards is pretty much straightforward when you bet on Blackjack.

If when betting on blackjack you card count correctly (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can shift the edge to your favour.

Blackjack Basic Strategy

Twenty-one basic strategy is assembled around a basic system of how you wager depending upon the cards you receive and is statistically the best hand to use while not card counting. It informs you when gambling on twenty-one when you need to hit or stand.

It’s very simple to do and is soon committed to memory and until then you can get free cards on the internet

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

Card counting getting the edge in your favour

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting scheme achieve an edge over the casino.

The reasoning behind this is easy.

Low cards favor the casino in chemin de fer and high cards favour the player.

Low cards favour the dealer because they assist him make winning totals on her hands when he is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, fourteen, 15, or 16 total on her 1st two cards).

In casino vingt-et-un, you can stand on your stiffs if you want to, but the dealer can’t.

He has no decision to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of gambling on twenty-one require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the shoe is in high cards that will bust her.

The high cards favour the player because they may break the croupier when she hits her stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.

Although blackjacks are, evenly dispensed between the croupier 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 tally the numbers of each of the individual card to know when you have an edge over the croupier.

You only need to know when the shoe is loaded or poor in high cards and you can increase your wager when the expectation is in your favour.

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

When wagering on 21 over the longer term card counting will assist in altering the odds in your favor by approx two percent.