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If you love the thrill and adventure of a good card game and the anticipation of winning and acquiring some money with the odds in your favour, playing vingt-et-un is for you.

So, how can you defeat the croupier?

Basically when playing 21 you are watching the odds and probabilities of the cards in relation to:

1. The cards in your hand

2. What cards possibly could come from the shoe

When enjoying 21 there is mathematically a better way to play every hand and this is known as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you calculate the odds of cards being dealt from the deck, then you can boost your action amount when the edge is in your favor and lower them when they are not.

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

To do this when betting on vingt-et-un you should use basic strategy and card counting to win.

Basic tactics and card counting

Since mathematicians and intellectuals have been studying 21 all sorts of abstract schemes have arisen, including but not limited to "card counting" but although the idea is complicated card counting is actually very easy when you play Blackjack.

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

21 Basic Strategy

21 basic strategy is assembled around a basic plan of how you bet based upon the cards you are dealt and is statistically the strongest hand to use while not card counting. It tells you when gambling on twenty-one when you need to hit or hold.

It’s surprisingly easy to do and is quickly committed to memory and up until then you can get no charge guides on the net

Using it when you bet on twenty-one will bring down the casino’s edge to near to zero.

Counting cards shifting the edge in your favor

Card counting works and players use a card counting system gain an edge over the casino.

The reason for this is easy.

Low cards favour the casino in blackjack and high cards favour the player.

Low cards favor the house because they help him make winning totals on her hands when he is stiff (has a 12, 13, 14, 15, or 16 total on his first 2 cards).

In casino blackjack, you can stay on your stiffs if you choose to, but the croupier cannot.

The house has no decision to make, but you do and this is your advantage. The rules of playing vingt-et-un require that croupiers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the shoe is in high cards that will bust them.

The high cards favour the gambler because they may bust the dealer when she hits their stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.

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

You do not have to tally the numbers of each of the individual card to know when you have an edge over the croupier.

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

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

When playing 21 over an extended time card counting will assist in changing the edge in your favor by approx 2 percent.