Progressive betting is the only way to win, and the new Pattern Betting channel on YouTube is the best place to see it in action.
It's early days yet! The Wizard's whizz-bang blackjack sim has kept me busy for the past month and a half, and 15,000 rounds later I'm about $600,000 ahead of the game.
Pity it's not real money.
The idea of the new channel is to show, not just tell, that house games of chance can only be beaten with progressive betting.
As I have been saying here for years, it's just logic: bet flat or back-pedal when the pressure's on, and you are certain to tap out your bankroll before you can turn things around.
Two things set the Target/Turnaround progressive strategy apart from pie-in-the-sky methods that have been around forever and cannot hope to win in the long run.
First, there's 3-play, and second is the rule that once your target is achieved you fall back to a minimum bet.
I waffle a lot in the videos, but I make no apology for that--the message I want to get across to players who are serious about tackling the house edge in blackjack and other games of chance bears repeating as often as it takes to make it stick.
Blackjack offers the best beat-the-house opportunities, as long as players learn the hit-or-sit tactics known as the Basic Strategy until it becomes second nature.
Like me, you will make mistakes, but consistency and discipline get easier with practice (I'm guessing that by the time I pop my clogs, I should only be about 20 percent shy of perfection!).
The wide bet spreads that this strategy calls for will make it necessary to move often, from low-rent layouts to the gilded hall where high rollers lose sums with multiple zeroes, but you should never hesitate to take a walk and start over somewhere else if where you're at doesn't feel right or if you just need a breather.
What counts (literally) is that if you are in mid-recovery, you always take your Down and Out numbers with you and resume play at that level when your gut tells you the time is right.
Down is your win target, and Out is the value of your next bet, two critical values that you should always have in mind.
Casino mouthpieces will never stop spouting the mantra that 'any amount bet against a negative expectation will always have a negative outcome' and as always they will be absolutely right, as long as bet values are flat, or randomly selected.
Perhaps the most important thing my progressive strategy tells you is when you have won enough and it's time to fall back and start over.
Enough can be defined as 'just a little more' and not knowing when enough is enough is the downfall of most gamblers.
Enough said?
An important reminder: The only person likely to make money out of this blog is you, Dear Reader. There's nothing to buy, ever, and your soul is safe (from me, at least). Test my ideas and use them or don't. It's up to you. One more piece of friendly advice: If you are inclined to use target betting with real money against online "casinos", spend a few minutes and save a lot of money by reading this.
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