It is no secret that casinos are in it for the money, that should be an obvious and apparent fact. Their goal is to entice you to play and hope that you lose as much as possible, so that they will profit in the end. This creates a problem for you if you are the kind of player who is good enough to win consistently and be really cautious about betting when the odds are against you.

Any seasoned blackjack player will tell you that winning it is not all about luck. But as much as you, and just about every other blackjack player out there would wish that it were otherwise, luck and random events still form a big part of the game. Here are some of the more common blackjack probabilities that you should be aware of and which you should factor in when formulating your blackjack strategy.

You see card counting as a component of many a blackjack strategy. In fact, a lot of blackjack strategies actually center around card counting, giving certain parameters with corresponding actions. However, that could make starting out in blackjack difficult because there are a lot of ways to do card counting, many of them multifaceted and requiring years of study and practice. That is why it is a good idea to start with a more basic card counting strategy like the one outlined below.