I have gambled on millions of hands of vingt-et-un. I started sneaking into the casinos when I was still underage. I have played online vingt-et-un, I have counted cards, and worked as part of a team for a short while. With all that said I have still lost a lot of cash at chemin de fer. The gambling halls have made it very hard to defeat the house.

I still like the game and play on a frequent basis. Over the years I have played a variation of blackjack called "The Take it Leave it Method". You most certainly will not get flush with this tactic or beat the casino, nonetheless you will have a lot of fun. This tactic is centered on the fact that vingt-et-un appears to be a game of streaks. When you’re on fire your on fire, and when you’re not you are NOT!

I gamble with basic strategy vingt-et-un. When I lose I bet the table minimum on the next hand. If I lose again I bet the lowest amount allowed on the subsequent hand again etc. Whenever I hit I take the payout paid to me and I wager the original wager 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 winnings paid to me, and if I win the next hand I leave it for a total of 4 times my original wager. I keep betting this way "Take it Leave it etc". Once I lose I lower the wager back down to the original sum.

I am very strict and never "chicken out". It gets extremely thrilling sometimes. If you succeed at a few hands in a row your bets go up very quickly. Before you know it you are wagering $100-200per hand. I have had great runs a number of times now. I left a $5 table at the Venetian a few years back with $750 after 20 minutes using this tactic! And a number of weeks ago in Sin City I left a table 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 exciting. And you will be surprised at the runs you witness wagering this way. Below is a chart of what you would bet if you kept winning at a 5 dollar table.

Bet five dollar
Take 5 dollar paid-out to you, leave the original 5 dollar wager

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

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

Wager ten dollar
Leave 10 dollar paid-out to you for a total wager of twenty dollar

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

Bet $20
Leave twenty dollar paid-out to you for a total wager of forty dollar

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

Bet $40
Leave 40 dollar paid-out to you for a total bet of $80

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

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

Bet $160
Take 160 dollar paid to you, leave the original 1 hundred and 60 dollar wager

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

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