Blackjack

Read more about the
Las Vegas 2024 Super
Bowl Streaker!

I have enjoyed millions of hands of vingt-et-un. I started sneaking into the casinos when I was 16. I have bet on online twenty-one, I have counted cards, and worked with a team for a short time. Given all that I have still lost all kinds of cash at 21. The casinos have made it almost impossible to defeat the house.

I still enjoy the game and wager on a frequent basis. Over this time period I have wagered on a variation of 21 called "The Take it Leave it Method". You will not get rich with this method or beat the casino, however you will experience a lot of fun. This tactic is founded on the idea that vingt-et-un appears to be a match of runs. When you are hot your on fire, and when you are not you’re NOT!

I wager with basic strategy twenty-one. When I don’t win I wager the lowest amount allowed on the successive hand. If I lose again I wager the table minimum on the next hand again etc. Whenever I win I take the payout paid to me and I wager the initial bet 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 winnings paid to me, and if I succeed 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 lower the bet back down to the original bet.

I am very strict and never "chicken out". It gets extremely exciting on occasion. If you win a few hands in sequence your bets go up very quickly. Before you realize it you are wagering $100-200per hand. I have had awesome streaks a couple of times now. I left a $5 table at the Flamingo a number of years ago with $750 after 60 mins using this method! And a couple of days ago in Vegas I left a table with $1200!

You have to understand that you can lose a great deal faster this way too!. But it really makes the game more exciting. And you will be astonished at the runs you see playing this way. Here is a chart of what you would wager if you kept winning at a 5 dollar game.

Wager $5
Take 5 dollar paid to you, leave the original 5 dollar bet

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

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

Bet $10
Leave 10 dollar paid to you for a total wager of $20

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

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

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

Bet 40 dollar
Leave forty dollar paid to you for a total bet of eighty dollar

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

Bet $80
Leave 80 dollar paid-out to you for a total wager of one hundred and sixty dollar

Bet $160
Take $160 paid-out to you, leave the initial $160 wager

If you left at this point you would be up three hundred and 15 dollars !!

It’s difficult to go on a run this long, but it occasionally happen. And when it does you can NOT alter and drop your wager or the end result won’t be the same.