I have played millions of hands of blackjack. I began sneaking into the gambling dens when I was sixteen. I have gambled on online twenty-one, I have counted cards, and worked as part of a team for a short time. Given all that I have still lost all kinds of bankroll at chemin de fer. The gambling dens have made it basically impossible to defeat the house.

I still like the game and gamble on a regular basis. Over the years I have enjoyed a variation of blackjack called "The Take it Leave it Method". You won’t get flush with this tactic or beat the house, still you will have an abundance of fun. This tactic is based on the idea that chemin de fer appears to be a match of runs. When you are hot your on fire, and when you’re not you are NOT!

I bet with basic strategy twenty-one. When I don’t win I wager the lowest amount allowed on the next hand. If I do not win again I wager the table minimum on the subsequent hand again etc. As soon as I hit I take the winnings 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 payout paid to me, and if I succeed the next hand I leave it for a total of four times my original wager. I continue betting this way "Take it Leave it etc". Once I do not win I lower the wager back down to the original sum.

I am very disciplined and do not back out. It gets very exciting sometimes. If you succeed at a few hands in a row your bets go up very quick. Before you know it you are gambling $100-200/ hand. I have had awesome runs a few times now. I departed a $5 table at the Paris a number of years back with $750 after 45 minutes using this technique! And a couple of months ago in Macau I left a table with $1200!

You need to understand that you can give up much faster this way too!. But it really makes the game more thrilling. And you will be surprised at the streaks you see gamble this way. Here is a chart of what you would wager if you kept winning at a 5 dollar table.

Wager 5 dollar
Take 5 dollar paid-out to you, leave the initial five dollar bet

Bet 5 dollar
Leave 5 dollar paid-out to you for a total bet of ten dollar

Bet ten dollar
Take ten dollar paid-out to you, leave the initial ten dollar bet

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wager 80 dollar
Leave 80 dollar paid to you for a total wager of one hundred and sixty dollar

Bet 160 dollar
Take 160 dollar paid-out to you, leave the first one hundred and sixty dollar wager

If you left at this point you would be up 3 hundred and fifteen dollars !!

It’s difficult to go on a streak this long, but it can happen. And when it does you can’t deviate and drop your bet or the end result will not be the same.