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If Amanda Had Kept Cirie Instead?
"Would She Have Won?"

Game Of Survival 

If you are not a Survivor fan it is OK.  It is just one of those questions in life we'll just never have the answers to, even if we think or assume we know them.  Guessing for some things is the only way to satisfy our curiosity.

Blackjack however isn't like that and we do have all the answers to this game.  We can tell anyone, anything they need to know to win.  Sometimes however, we just want to know things ourselves.  Carrying on with our previous example of the Pair of 7s vs. a Face Card, what if we counted cards?  Is the hand going to change the way we play it, from a Stand to something else and where in the count will it change?

I decided to run another quick test.  I added in counting to the same test.  I counted the Ace & Face Cards as Minus 1 and the 2, 3, 4, 5, & 6 as Plus 1.  If you count differently you'd just put whatever counting method you prefer in and run the test.

Player #1, Pair 77 Vs Dealers Up Card Face (STAND)
-3	-2	-1	Zero	+1	+2	+3	+4
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Player #2, Pair 77 Vs Dealers Up Card Face (HIT)
-3	-2	-1	Zero	+1	+2	+3	+4
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As you can see the hand changes the way it is played very quickly.  After another 50 Million Round test, this time with counting, I can go back into the Hand Breakdown vs. Dealer's Up Card and take a look at this same hand.  Now we can see that at just three minus counts I have shown above, we'd win about $5,000 more if we HIT the hand in just those three counts and Stand at the Even and Plus counts.  So know in our overall game we saved thousands more dollars.  This doesn't even show all the minus counts where we will continue to save money.  Although we can't turn this hand into a winning hand no matter how we play it, we are losing less by playing it correctly.  By playing it the most correct way at every count we can maximize what we win.  Now when we go into our Win/Loss Report we are going to win more money in our overall game by playing every cell correctly at every count.

Counting Vs. Not Counting

The Win/Loss Report shows us our overall game for no matter how we play or how we count cards.  It proves that most counting strategies work and casinos cannot beat players who are using the Playing 21 Program.  If you read through the site you see time and time again how important knowing this information is.  It really makes winning very easy.  In our first example here, we can see there is no way to win if we don't count cards.  We can't see where in the count we are winning more than we are losing, so we don't know where to start betting more money.  In our non- counting test, player #1's Win/Loss Report looked like this:

 

Win/Loss Report - Player #1

There is just nothing this player can do to win, too make money, and without card counting, no one can beat the game Blackjack.  However, you can count just two cards and change all that into a windfall.  Here is playing the exact same way only counting the cards as I previously stated.

Win/Loss Report - Player #5

As you can see, just the counting of the cards alone was not enough to change this players Net Wagers from an overall loss to a win. In fact, in the first test above, without card counting, in 50 Million Rounds Player #1 lost $1,119,335 and in the second test, with card counting Player #5 actually did worse even though they played the hands the exact same way.  Player #5 lost $1,135,240 or $15,905 more than Player #1.  Each player played 50 Million Rounds and this extra $15,905 really doesn't mean anything to seriously in the overall game.  The amount is actually very close and a difference between two players on different tests is expected, even when playing the same.    Running another test we could win that amount back and more.  What does matter here is the information we are now receiving above from the Win/Loss Report.

I have highlighted the count of Plus 1 for Player #5 above.  At this count and the other plus counts we can see that very important last column, the Net Wagers (above, -1,135,240).  At the count of Plus 1, our overall game is actually winning money, making a profit for us.  So now we know enough information to now make this casino just another casino that can't beat.  At a count of Plus 1 for this set of House Rules, Number Of Decks Used, Penetration Points and our chosen method of playing each hand, we are actually winning money.  Knowing this now we can go into the Units Wagered area of the Playing 21 Program.  All we do know is change how many Units we bet at any count we choose, say all the plus counts. 

Above you can see that all we did was change the Units Bet at the Plus Counts from 1 Unit (Loss of $1,135,240) to 2 Units (Win of $953,430) to 3 Units (Win of $3,042,100).  This is the exact same game, not a new test.  All we did was change the Units we bet at the Plus counts and we went from a Loss of over a Million Dollars to a win of over $3 Million.  That is a swing of over $4 Million and the biggest bet we made went from 1 unit to 3 units ($10 to $30 in our example).  You could learn to count this way, play at your local casino and you'd win.  Maybe you want to bet $25 to $150 spread.  I can guarantee you this though, there are much more profitable ways to play than this.

This is the power of the Playing 21 Program.  Now if I was going to play this way all the time, I'd run more tests, finding out more using the Hand Breakdown vs. Dealer's Up Card on how to play each and every single hand.  I'd learn where every hand changed the way it is played, from say a Split to a Hit or Stand or a Double Down to a Hit and so forth.  Each time losing less and less or winning more and more within each cell and each time turning more of an overall profit in the Win/Loss Report.  The casinos can't win this game here and it isn't even the best way to play this set of rules.

I ran another test, with Counting Weights (my favorites) to show you how to win even more money using this set up, playing this exact same way, with all the same rules.  I will get it in here for you at some point.

The Playing 21 Program will give you all the answers for the way you play, any way that may be.  Maybe you are like us and love the 8 deck games?  It doesn't matter what the local rules at your local casino are, buy the program and learn to win at what ever game you wish.  The casinos just can't win and the program proves it time and time again. 

After you make some serious money do one more thing.  Come and play a round of golf at a Tri-Par Golf Course.  Maybe by then I can convince Tiger to come play, who knows.

If I don't catch you at the tables, maybe I'll catch you on the links.