If you like the blast and excitement of a perfect card game and the excitement of winning and earning some cash with the odds in your favour, gambling on 21 is for you.

So, how can you beat the house?

Quite simply when wagering on twenty-one you are tracking the odds and probabilities of the cards in regard to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards might be dealt from the shoe

When gambling on blackjack there is statistically a best way to play each hand and this is referred to as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you calculate the odds of cards coming out of the deck, then you are able to boost your wager amount when the edge is in your favor and lower them when the edge is not.

You’re only going to win under half the hands you wager on, so it is important that you adjust action size when the odds are in your favour.

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

Basic strategy and counting cards

Since mathematicians and academics have been studying 21 all sorts of abstract plans have been developed, including "counting cards" but although the theory is complex counting cards is actually very easy when you wager on 21.

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

Twenty-one Basic Strategy

21 basic strategy is centralized around an uncomplicated system of how you bet based upon the hand you are dealt and is statistically the best hand to use without counting cards. It tells you when wagering on chemin de fer when you should hit or stand.

It’s very easy to do and is soon memorized and up until then you can find free cards on the internet

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

Card counting shifting the odds in your favour

Card counting works and gamblers use a card counting approach gain an advantage over the casino.

The reason this is simple.

Low cards favor the croupier in blackjack and high cards favor the gambler.

Low cards favour the casino because they help her acquire winning totals on his hands when she is stiff (has a 12, thirteen, fourteen, 15, or sixteen total on her initial 2 cards).

In casino 21, you can stay on your stiffs if you choose to, but the house can’t.

He has no decision to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of wagering on vingt-et-un require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how rich the deck is in high cards that will bust him.

The high cards favour the gambler because they might bust the dealer when she hits her stiffs and also blackjacks are made with aces and tens.

Despite the fact blackjacks are, equally dispersed 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 advantage.

You don’t have to tally the numbers of each of the individual card to know when you have an advantage over the dealer.

You simply need to know when the shoe is rich or poor in high cards and you can elevate your wager when the expectation is in your favor.

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

When gambling on blackjack over an extended term card counting will help in altering the edge in your favor by approx two percent.