I have bet on millions of hands of vingt-et-un. I began sneaking into the gambling dens when I was sixteen. I have bet on online chemin de fer, I have counted cards, and worked as part of a team for a short while. Given all that I have still spent a lot of funds at vingt-et-un. The gambling halls have made it very hard to beat the house.

I still enjoy the game and play on a frequent basis. Over the years I have played a variation of chemin de fer called "The Take it Leave it Method". You certainly won’t get flush with this tactic or defeat the house, nonetheless you will have an abundance of fun. This tactic is founded on the idea that blackjack appears to be a game of runs. When you are hot your hot, and when you are not you’re NOT!

I gamble with basic strategy blackjack. When I don’t win I bet the table minimum on the successive hand. If I do not win again I wager the lowest amount allowed on the successive hand again etc. As soon as I profit I take the winnings paid to me and I bet the original bet again. If I win this hand I then leave the winnings paid to me and now have double my original bet on the table. If I win again I take the payout paid to me, and if I succeed the next hand I leave it for a total of four times my original bet. I keep betting this way "Take it Leave it etc". Once I do not win I lower the action back down to the original bet.

I am very strict and do not "chicken out". It gets extremely fun on occasion. If you win a few hands in a row your bets go up very fast. Before you know it you are betting $100-200/ hand. I have had great streaks a couple of times now. I left a $5 table at the Paris a number of years ago with $750 after 35 minutes using this tactic! And a few weeks ago in Vegas I left a game with $1200!

You need to understand that you can say good-bye to a great deal faster this way too!. But it really makes the game more enjoyable. And you will be astonished at the streaks you see playing this way. Below is a guide of what you would bet if you kept winning at a five dollar game.

Bet $5
Take $5 paid to you, leave the original $5 wager

Bet 5 dollar
Leave five dollar paid to you for a total wager of ten dollar

Wager 10 dollar
Take ten dollar paid to you, leave the original $10 wager

Bet ten dollar
Leave ten dollar paid-out to you for a total bet of $20

Bet 20 dollar
Take twenty dollar paid to you, leave the initial twenty dollar bet

Bet 20 dollar
Leave twenty dollar paid to you for a total bet of forty dollar

Bet forty dollar
Take forty dollar paid-out to you, leave the initial $40 wager

Bet $40
Leave 40 dollar paid-out to you for a total wager of eighty dollar

Wager $80
Take eighty dollar paid to you, leave the first $80 bet

Wager eighty dollar
Leave $80 paid to you for a total wager of one hundred and sixty dollar

Bet 160 dollar
Take $160 paid-out to you, leave the original $160 bet

If you left at this instance you would be up $315 !!

It is herculean to go on a streak this long, but it does happen. And when it does you mustn’t alter and drop your bet or the final result will not be the same.