If you like the thrill and adventure of an excellent card game and the excitement of winning and acquiring some money with the odds in your favor, betting on Blackjack is for you.

So, how can you defeat the casino?

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

1. What your hand is

2. What cards could come from the deck

When enjoying vingt-et-un 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 odds 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 win under half the hands you gamble on, so it is important that you adjust bet size when the risks are in your favour.

To do this when betting on blackjack you should use basic strategy and card counting to win.

Basic strategy and card counting

Since professionals and scientists have been investigating twenty-one all sorts of complex systems have been developed, including "counting cards" but even though the theory is complex counting cards is pretty much very easy when you bet on Blackjack.

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

Twenty-one Basic Strategy

Vingt-et-un basic strategy is centered around an unsophisticated approach of how you wager based upon the cards you are dealt and is mathematically the best hand to use without card counting. It informs you when gambling on chemin de fer when you need to take another card or stand.

It’s extremely simple to do and is quickly memorized and up until then you can find complimentary guides on the net

Using it when you bet on 21 will bring down the casino’s odds advantage to near to even.

Counting cards tilting the odds in your favor

Card counting works and players use a card counting approach gain an edge over the gambling den.

The reason for this is easy.

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

Low cards favor the dealer because they assist her acquire winning totals on her hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, 13, fourteen, 15, or sixteen total on her 1st 2 cards).

In casino 21, you can stay on your stiffs if you want to, but the casino cannot.

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

The high cards favour the gambler because they might break the casino when he hits his stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.

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

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

You just need to know at what point the deck is loaded or poor in high cards and you can increase your bet when the odds are in your favor.

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

When betting on vingt-et-un over the longer term card counting will aid in shifting the edge in your favor by to around 2 percent.