Playing 21 Program -- System Players

A System Player's Dream Come True
"Beating The System"

Everyone Has A System

One thing we have learned about Blackjack players is that many of them have systems they like to use and play. We have seen many and some are quite good. We have some systems that we use in a different way against the casinos, that just don't lose when played our way which I will tell you about below.

First you need an understanding of our Playing 21 Program and why we made the software as we have. Once you understand how it works, system players will see that many of their systems will be unstoppable as well.

If any of this is over your head for you are a newer player, just read around the site and understand a lot more of the programs functions and then come back here and try again.

Bet Count vs. Play Count

To make it so anyone can win at Blackjack, almost using any counting strategy, we use different terms for playing each hand as well as where to store information for the hand. We play the hand at the Play Count or Running Count at the time the hand is played and we store information at Bet Count, the Running Count at the time the wager was placed. If you are counting cards each time the dealer is set to deal the cards you have a Running Count of the cards. You start by placing a wager and we store this at the Bet Count.

This is very important to become a winner at the game. We don't know what hand we are about to get, win or lose, all we know is what the Bet Count is when we made our wager. For example, lets say the count is Plus 3. We would place a bet and the dealer would then deal the cards. The dealer deals us a pair of face cards for a 20 and the dealer flips their up card as a 6. We have continued to count the cards on the table as the dealer dealt and the Running Count is now say Minus 2. It is our turn to play the hand and we play this hand at the Play Count for playing a Pair 10-10 vs. 6 at Minus 2. So lets say this is a Stand using our playing strategy. The dealer now plays their hand and busts and we win our wager. We would then store the outcome of the hand at the Bet Count of Plus 3, in the Hand Breakdown vs. Dealer Up Card for a Pair 10-10 vs. a 6 at Plus 3.

After playing millions of hands we can go into the Win/Loss Report. This report shows us how we did at each and every count of the cards. So every time we placed a wager at Bet Count of Plus 3, how did we do in our overall game? The Win/Loss Report is broken into 21 different counts. By doing this we can now see if we actually had any counts where we turned a profit in our overall game. If there are any counts we won at, we now know we can bet more at these particular counts and possibly turn our entire game into a profitable game.

It is very easy to see and very easy to do, but it had to be done like this to prove players could win and how. The entire game breaks down logically as it should. We store information in the proper places and as it was known to us and never after the fact or in the wrong place. What the program creates is players who can't lose using counting and wager variation as the Playing 21 Program shows them.

Beating The System

Getting back to the system players. Using the Win/Loss Report system players can see where in the count they are winning more than losing. So instead of using Wager Variation to win they can instead just kick their systems in at these counts. So they can bet a base bet each time the Win/Loss Report shows they aren't turning a profit and kick their systems in when they are in favorable counts. Many systems played at these winning counts yield very high returns. There becomes even less chance of anyone figuring out what you are doing for you are playing the system, stopping for many hands, then picking the system back up where you left off the next favorable count.

Here are some screen shots to show you how it works. The House Rules I used were an eight deck game, Dealer Standing on Soft 17, peaking, surrender, insurance, splitting up to three times, aces split once, doubling after split of non aces and comps for a breakfast for two.

First thing we do is look at our Win/Loss Report (here is player #6). From the first thumb we can see how he did at all 21 counts. We can see this player is winning 48.68% of the overall game but is winning over 49% from the counts of Plus 6 to Plus 10. There is a lot of information we can talk about here and this is great for comparing different players or different counting strategies. The comparisons can never end with over 25 billion different ways to count with the program. You can also note the first column, Units Bet at every count is 1 Unit (which is equal to $10 as I will show you later)

Now looking at the second thumb we have scrolled across this players Win/Loss Report and we can see the very last column which shows how much actual money this player is winning or losing. At the highlighted line we can see the bright spot is we are winning at a count of Plus 4 to Plus 10. The bad thing is we are losing in our overall game, a total of $4,783,490 (almost $5 million). That sucks!!! Well of course, this is the Playing 21 Program and all hope isn't lost yet.

We now go into the Wager Input Options for player #6 as this next thumb is showing us (on the left). As you can see the player is betting a Base Bet of $10 and one unit at every count. We can change this Base Bet here and we can also change the Units Bet at any or all counts. Of course all players have their very own Wager Input Options as well.

So now we can go into the next thumb (on the right) and we can see we have altered the way Player #6 bets at the counts of Plus 4 to Plus 10. We have changed from 1 Unit Wagered to 5 Units Wagered at each of these counts. Of course there is no stopping us and we count bet table max if we really wanted to let everyone know we were card counting. Subtle still makes a nice profit but you will do your own thing.

Now we go back into our Win/Loss Report for Player #6 (as can be seen on the right). This isn't a new test. This is the exact same test that we started with and it has all the same statistics and if you care to compare from this to the first thumb, everything is the exact same with just one tiny exception. We never won even one additional hand. All we have done is now bet 5 Units at the Plus counts of Plus 4 to Plus 10 and this can be seen in the first column.

Now we can scroll across in the final thumb and see how this subtle change in betting at these counts changes our game. Remember we had a loss of $4,783,490 (almost $5 million). Now as you can see we are turning a profit. Our profit is now $2,078,930 and all we did was bet from $10 at all counts to $10 at all counts except $50 at counts of Plus 4 through Plus 10. That is almost a $7 Million swing to the good. We could increase our base bet from $10 to $50 and spread our bets from $50 to $250 in this same example and now win over $10 Million.

The best is this is just one way to count and play and it is far from the best we have or the best that the Playing 21 Program will show you.

So system players need not vary their bets in favorable counts, as a card counter would do, but just start their systems. You might get 5 hands in your system and it falls out of the Plus 4 range, so you stop betting your system. The next time you come back into a favorable count, re-start your system where you left off. I know systems where one clear back is 10 times one bust (IE - One Bust = $500 Loss, One Clear Back Wins $5,000 Profit). If you were playing anything like that you'd be clearing back at a more frequent rate if all you were ever doing was playing the system when it was already favorable to you in the first place. Very small systems will clear back and win more often, almost any viable system played strictly in a favorable count will win.

The Playing 21 Program is as cheap as eating at McDonald's tonight (if you eat like Jr does). What are you waiting for? $24.95! Too good to be true? We'll, thank us later by telling a friend after you have the program.