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I have wagered on countless of hands of twenty-one. I started sneaking into the gambling dens when I was sixteen. I have wagered on online vingt-et-un, I have counted cards, and worked with a team for a short while. With all that said I have still lost a lot of cash at vingt-et-un. The gambling dens have made it very hard to defeat the house.

I still enjoy the game and gamble 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 rich with this method or beat the house, still you will have an abundance of fun. This method is founded on the fact that blackjack seems to be a match of runs. When you’re on fire your hot, and when you are not you are NOT!

I play basic strategy twenty-one. When I don’t win I bet the table minimum on the successive hand. If I don’t win again I wager the lowest amount allowed on the next hand again etc. As soon as I win I take the winnings paid to me and I bet the initial wager again. If I win this hand I then leave 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 four times my original wager. I keep betting this way "Take it Leave it etc". Once I do not win I return the wager back down to the original bet.

I am very strict and do not back out. It gets extremely fun on occasion. If you succeed at a few hands in sequence your wagers go up very fast. Before you know it you are gambling $100-200per hand. I have had fantastic runs a number of times now. I departed a $5 table at the Wynn a couple of years ago with $750 after 30 mins using this method! And a couple of months ago in Sin City I left a table with $1200!

You have to understand that you can say good-bye to a lot faster this way too!. But it really makes the game more thrilling. And you will be amazed at the runs you see wagering this way. Here is a guide of what you would wager if you continue winning at a 5 dollar game.

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

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

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

Wager $10
Leave $10 paid to you for a total bet of 20 dollar

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

Wager 20 dollar
Leave $20 paid to you for a total wager of 40 dollar

Wager 40 dollar
Take forty dollar paid to you, leave the original $40 bet

Wager 40 dollar
Leave forty dollar paid to you for a total bet of $80

Bet 80 dollar
Take 80 dollar paid to you, leave the original eighty dollar wager

Bet eighty dollar
Leave 80 dollar paid to you for a total bet of 160 dollar

Wager 160 dollar
Take one hundred and sixty dollar paid to you, leave the original one hundred and sixty dollar bet

If you departed at this moment you would be up 3 hundred and 15 dollars !!

It is herculean to go on a run this long, but it often happen. And when it does you must NOT alter and lower your bet or the final result won’t be the same.