If you love the fulfillment and adventure of a great card game and the anticipation of winning and making some cash with the odds in your favour, gambling on twenty-one is for you.

So, how can you defeat the casino?

Quite simply when playing blackjack you are looking at the risks and probabilities of the cards in relation to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards might come from the deck

When wagering on vingt-et-un there is statistically a better way to play each hand and this is referred to as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you anticipate the odds of cards being dealt from the deck, then you can boost your wager size when the odds are in your favor and lower them when the odds are not.

You are only going to succeed at under half the hands you play, so it is important that you adjust bet size when the risks are in your favour.

To do this when gambling on vingt-et-un you must use basic strategy and card counting to succeed.

Basic tactics and card counting

Since professionals and intellectuals have been studying vingt-et-un all sorts of abstract systems have been developed, including but not limited to "counting cards" but even though the theory is complicated card counting is pretty much straightforward when you wager on twenty-one.

If when betting on twenty-one you card count properly (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can change the odds to your favour.

21 Basic Strategy

Vingt-et-un basic strategy is centralized around a simple approach of how you wager depending upon the hand you are dealt and is statistically the strongest hand to use without card counting. It informs you when playing vingt-et-un when you should hit or stand.

It’s unbelievably simple to do and is soon memorized and up until then you can find free cards on the net

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

Card counting getting the edge in your favor

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting plan realize an edge over the gambling den.

The reasoning behind this is easy.

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

Low cards favour the croupier because they assist him acquire winning totals on their hands when he is stiff (has a 12, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, or sixteen total on his initial 2 cards).

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

The casino has no choice to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of gambling on 21 require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how rich the shoe is in high cards that will break her.

The high cards favour the player because they could bust the dealer when she hits her stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.

Although blackjacks are, equally distributed between the croupier and the player, the fact is that the player gets paid more (3:2) when he gets a blackjack so the gambler has an advantage.

You don’t have to compute the numbers of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an edge over the croupier.

You simply need to know at what point the shoe is flush or poor in high cards and you can elevate your action when the edge is in your favor.

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

When betting on 21 over the longer term card counting will help in tilting the expectation in your favor by to around two percent.