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09.30

I have gambled on millions of hands of 21. I started sneaking into the gambling halls when I was sixteen. I have played online twenty-one, I have counted cards, and worked with a team for a short time. With all that said I have still spent a lot of money at vingt-et-un. The casinos have made it very hard to defeat the house.

I still like the game and gamble on a regular basis. Over the years I have enjoyed a type of chemin de fer called "The Take it Leave it Method". You won’t get loaded with this method or beat the house, still you will have a lot of fun. This tactic is founded on the idea that chemin de fer seems to be a match of runs. When you are on fire your on fire, and when you are not you are NOT!

I wager with basic strategy twenty-one. When I lose I wager the table minimum on the next hand. If I don’t win again I bet the table minimum on the successive hand again etc. As soon as I profit I take the payout paid to me and I bet the original wager again. If I win this hand I then keep in play the winnings paid to me and now have double my original wager on the table. If I win again I take the payout paid to me, and if I win the next hand I leave it for a total of 4 times my original bet. I continue wagering this way "Take it Leave it etc". Once I do not win I return the action back down to the original amount.

I am very disciplined and do not "chicken out". It gets very thrilling sometimes. If you win a few hands in series your wagers go up very quick. Before you know it you are wagering $100-200per hand. I have had fantastic streaks a couple of times now. I departed a $5 table at the Flamingo a number of years back with $750 after 30 minutes using this technique! And a number of days ago in Sin City I left a game with $1200!

You have to understand that you can lose a great deal faster this way too!. But it really makes the game more thrilling. And you will be astonished at the streaks you see betting this way. Below is a chart of what you would bet if you kept winning at a five dollar table.

Bet $5
Take $5 paid to you, leave the initial 5 dollar wager

Wager five dollar
Leave 5 dollar paid-out to you for a total wager of 10 dollar

Wager 10 dollar
Take $10 paid-out to you, leave the first ten dollar wager

Bet $10
Leave ten dollar paid to you for a total wager of twenty dollar

Wager twenty dollar
Take $20 paid-out to you, leave the original twenty dollar wager

Bet 20 dollar
Leave $20 paid-out to you for a total bet of 40 dollar

Wager forty dollar
Take 40 dollar paid to you, leave the initial 40 dollar wager

Wager forty dollar
Leave 40 dollar paid-out to you for a total wager of eighty dollar

Wager 80 dollar
Take $80 paid to you, leave the initial $80 wager

Wager $80
Leave $80 paid-out to you for a total wager of $160

Bet $160
Take 160 dollar paid to you, leave the initial 160 dollar bet

If you left at this point you would be up 315 dollar !!

It’s herculean to go on a streak this long, but it occasionally happen. And when it does you mustn’t alter and lower your wager or the end result will not be the same.