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I have enjoyed countless of hands of blackjack. I began working my way into the casinos when I was 16. I have gambled on online 21, I have counted cards, and worked as part of a team for a little while. With all that said I have still spent a lot of cash at chemin de fer. The gambling dens have made it very hard to defeat the house.

I still enjoy the game and wager on a frequent basis. Over this time period I have gambled on a type of 21 called "The Take it Leave it Method". You won’t get flush with this tactic or beat the casino, however you will experience an abundance of fun. This method is based on the fact that chemin de fer appears to be a game of runs. When you are hot your hot, and when you’re not you’re NOT!

I bet with basic strategy 21. When I don’t win I wager the lowest amount allowed on the subsequent hand. If I lose again I bet the lowest amount allowed on the successive hand again etc. Whenever I profit I take the payout paid to me and I wager the original bet 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 4 times my original wager. I continue wagering this way "Take it Leave it etc". Once I don’t win I lower the action back down to the original value.

I am very strict and do not "chicken out". It gets extremely fun on occasion. If you succeed at a few hands in series your bets go up very quick. Before you realize it you are betting $100-200per hand. I have had awesome runs a number of times now. I left a $5 table at the Flamingo a number of years ago with $750 after 35 mins using this method! And a few weeks ago in Las Vegas I left a game with $1200!

You have to comprehend that you can lose much faster this way too!. But it really makes the game more thrilling. And you will be amazed at the streaks you notice gamble this way. Here is a chart of what you would wager if you kept winning at a 5 dollar table.

Wager $5
Take $5 paid-out to you, leave the first $5 wager

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

Wager 10 dollar
Take $10 paid-out to you, leave the original $10 bet

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

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

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

Bet 40 dollar
Take forty dollar paid-out to you, leave the first 40 dollar bet

Bet forty dollar
Leave forty dollar paid-out to you for a total bet of 80 dollar

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

Bet $80
Leave 80 dollar paid to you for a total wager of $160

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

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

It is hard to go on a streak this long, but it occasionally happen. And when it does you can’t deviate and drop your bet or the final result won’t be the same.

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If you like the thrill and excitement of a good card game and the anticipation of winning and making some money with the odds in your favour, betting on vingt-et-un is for you.

So, how can you defeat the casino?

Basically when playing chemin de fer you are watching the odds and probabilities of the cards in regard to:

1. What your hand is

2. What cards can be dealt from the shoe

When wagering on blackjack there is mathematically a better way to play each hand and this is referred to as basic strategy. If you add card counting that helps you determine the odds of cards being dealt from the deck, then you will be able to increase your wager size when the edge is in your favor and lower them when the odds are not.

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

To do this when betting on twenty-one you have to use basic strategy and card counting to win.

Basic strategy and card counting

Since mathematicians and intellectuals have been investigating twenty-one all kinds of complex schemes have been developed, including "card counting" but although the theory is complicated card counting is pretty much very easy when you wager on 21.

If when betting on vingt-et-un you count cards reliably (even if the game uses multiple decks), you can shift the odds to your favour.

Twenty-one Basic Strategy

21 basic strategy is amassed around an uncomplicated approach of how you bet based upon the cards you are dealt and is mathematically the best hand to use without card counting. It tells you when playing blackjack when you need to hit or hold.

It is unbelievably simple to do and is soon memorized and until then you can get free guides on the internet

Using it when you gamble on 21 will bring down the casino’s odds advantage to near to zero.

Counting cards shifting the expectation in your favor

Card counting works and players use a card counting plan gain an edge over the gambling den.

The reason this is simple.

Low cards favor the house in 21 and high cards favour the gambler.

Low cards favour the casino because they help her acquire winning totals on their hands when she is stiff (has a twelve, 13, fourteen, 15, or 16 total on her initial 2 cards).

In casino chemin de fer, you can hold on your stiffs if you want to, but the dealer can’t.

The dealer has no decision to make, but you do and this is your edge. The rules of wagering on blackjack require that dealers hit stiffs no matter how loaded the deck is in high cards that will break her.

The high cards favour the player because they could bust the croupier when he hits her stiffs and also because both tens and Aces mean blackjacks.

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

You do not have to add up the data of each of the individual card in order to know when you have an advantage over the casino.

You just need to know when the shoe is flush or depleted in high cards and you can boost your wager when the edge is in your favour.

This is a simple breakdown of how card-counting plans work, but gives you an understanding into how the logic works.

When betting on blackjack over the longer term card counting will help in tilting the edge in your favour by approx 2 percent.