If you love the thrill and adventure of an excellent card game and the excitement of winning and earning some money with the odds in your favor, betting on twenty-one is for you.

So, how do you beat the house?

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

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards possibly could be dealt from the shoe

When playing twenty-one there is mathematically a better way to play every hand and this is referred to as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you determine the odds of cards being dealt from the deck, then you are able to boost your bet size 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 wager on, so it is important that you adjust action size when the risks are in your favour.

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

Basic strategy and counting cards

Since mathematicians and academics have been investigating twenty-one all sorts of abstract plans have arisen, including but not limited to "card counting" but although the theory is complicated counting cards is all in all very easy when you bet on 21.

If when wagering on 21 you count cards reliably (even if the game uses more than one deck), you can shift the odds to your favour.

Vingt-et-un Basic Strategy

Vingt-et-un basic strategy is centralized around an unsophisticated approach of how you bet based upon the cards you receive and is mathematically the best 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 remarkably easy to do and is soon committed to memory and up until then you can get free guides on the web

Using it when you wager on vingt-et-un will bring down the casino’s expectations to near to even.

Counting cards getting the edge in your favor

Card counting works and players use a card counting system achieve an edge over the gambling den.

The reasoning behind this is simple.

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

Low cards favour the dealer because they assist her make winning totals on her hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, thirteen, 14, fifteen, or 16 total on his 1st two cards).

In casino vingt-et-un, you can hold on your stiffs if you choose to, but the dealer cannot.

The dealer has no choice to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of gambling on 21 require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the deck is in high cards that will break them.

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

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

You do not have to count the data of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an edge over the dealer.

You just need to know at what point the shoe is rich or depleted in high cards and you can elevate your bet when the edge is in your favor.

This is a simple breakdown of how card-counting schemes work, but gives you an understanding into why the logic works.

When wagering on vingt-et-un over the longer term card counting will assist in changing the expectation in your favor by approx 2%.