If you like the fulfillment and excitement of a great card game and the excitement of winning and acquiring some cash with the odds in your favor, wagering on vingt-et-un is for you.

So, how can you defeat the dealer?

Quite simply when wagering on 21 you are watching the risks and chances of the cards in regard to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards could be dealt from the shoe

When enjoying 21 there is mathematically a best way to play every hand and this is called basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you determine the odds of cards coming out of the deck, then you can increase your wager 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 gamble on, so it is important that you adjust bet size when the risks are in your favor.

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

Basic tactics and card counting

Since professionals and intellectuals have been investigating vingt-et-un all kinds of complex schemes have been developed, including but not limited to "counting cards" but even though the theory is complicated card counting is pretty much very easy when you gamble on Blackjack.

If when betting on 21 you count cards effectively (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can tilt the edge to your favor.

Blackjack Basic Strategy

Blackjack basic strategy is centralized around an uncomplicated approach of how you bet depending upon the hand you receive and is statistically the strongest hand to use while not card counting. It informs you when playing vingt-et-un when you need to hit or hold.

It’s unbelievably easy to do and is quickly memorized and until then you can get free guides on the internet

Using it when you play twenty-one will bring down the casino’s odds advantage to near to zero.

Card counting tilting the odds in your favour

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

The reasoning behind this is easy.

Low cards favor the house in vingt-et-un and high cards favour the player.

Low cards favor the dealer because they help them acquire winning totals on their hands when she is stiff (has a 12, thirteen, 14, fifteen, or 16 total on his initial 2 cards).

In casino chemin de fer, you can hold on your stiffs if you choose to, but the house can’t.

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

The high cards favor the gambler because they might break the house when he hits their stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.

Though blackjacks are, evenly divided between the casino and the player, the fact is that the gambler gets paid more (3:2) when he gets a blackjack so the player has an edge.

You do not have to compute the data of each of the individual card to know when you have an edge over the house.

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

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

When gambling on vingt-et-un over an extended time card counting will help in changing the odds in your favour by approximately 2 percent.