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Sure, you could sit down to play Blackjack and just throw your money around. But, did you know that you’re most likely to lose money even if you have more winning hands than losing ones? Before playing Blackjack, it’s best to come up with a battle plan. You’ve got to attack the game.

Today, I’ll show you one attack plan. It’s a progressive (or ladder) system that changes your wager just about every hand. This is not a plan that increases your wager when you lose, because that’s the wrong way to do things. Rather, we’ll increase the wager with each winning hand.

You need to decide on the numbers and how many progressions to use. I’ll give you a guide to start from. Let’s imagine that you have $100 to play with. You should play $2-$5 hands normally. So, we’ll base our start at $5.

The plan is simple. When you lose, your next hand is $5. You never increase your wager after a losing hand. Instead, you start over again. When you win, you’ll be increasing your hand as follows:

5 – 10 – 20 – 40 – 80

I’ve set up five levels. If you win five hands in a row, rather than having $25, you’ll end up with $160 or more-blackjacks. However, if you were to lose say five in a row, you’ve only lost $25.
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Blair Hull was a successful blackjack player, and he turned $25,000 into $500,000 – but he didn’t do it playing blackjack. He used his blackjack skills in a game with far higher stakes and made a fortune.

Blair Hull actually became a trader, trading in the financial markets – and many of the worlds top financial traders are blackjack players. Why? Because blackjack gives you the skills to succeed in financial trading.

If you are able to play blackjack successfully, you can make money by trading as well – as you already have all the skills needed to succeed.

Blackjack Success is down to the Following:

1. Playing when the odds are in your favor
2. Adjusting the bet size
3. Using a system, and rigidly applying it with discipline
4. Playing non emotionally, and with focus

Just as most players in the casinos lose, so do most traders in the financial markets – and the reason is all down to not having a plan, and executing it with discipline.

The Key to Success in the Casino, or in Financial Trading is:

Trading method + Play the odds + Execute with discipline = Financial Success Most people can’t do this.

They play or trade emotionally, with no specific money management, and a lack of discipline – and end up losers.

So, is it hard to become a financial trader? No the basics are relatively easy – as the following example shows:

Become a Trader in a Few Weeks

In 1984, Richard Dennis conducted an experiment that taught 14 people with no previous experience to trade in 2 weeks. The Result? – They all went on to make millions in profits and earn 80% annual returns!

To learn a trading system (the system only had a few rules, and could be learned by anyone of average intelligence) is not hard, as Richard Dennis’s experiment showed.

Interestingly, Dennis put the success of the group not down to the system he gave them, but on the discipline, and money management skills he taught them.

Make the Move to a Higher Stakes Game

If you want to read the story of Blair HULL, then the book “The New Market Wizards” gives a fascinating insight into the crossover of skills – and how he quickly and successfully became a winner in trading.

The Edge you can get in Trading, is far Bigger than in Blackjack

Blackjack and trading are “games” where you need to deal with odds and probability – and get them on your side.

You then need to apply your method coolly, and non-emotionally, to make big profits – and you already have the discipline to succeed – you just need to learn the basics.
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If you are the kind of player that enjoys games with rules that are easy to learn, but difficult to master, then Blackjack is certainly your kind of game. While the rules are very quickly learned, there are many influences that a player must understand before achieving any type of proficiency with this timeless classic.

Fortunately Real Time Gaming’s gaming software very closely mimics traditional card play so well that all viable Blackjack strategies will work equally well in Real Time Gaming. This is very important before a player decides to start playing in the online casino environment.

The first item that you must understand is that the odds in Blackjack favor the house. For example, it’s not uncommon for both the dealer and the player to go over twenty-one, or “bust.” If this happens to you will lose your wager.

Another commonly misunderstood bet is the “insurance” bet. This is a side bet that you can make outside the typical wager. This bet comes in to play when the dealer is showing an Ace card face up (players are dealt two cards, initially, with one of the cards being placed face up and the other face down). An insurance bet can then be made. This is a bet that if the dealer has a ten card, and ends up getting a Blackjack, the player will lose their initial wager, but if they made the insurance bet they win that bet. The insurance bet pays two to one and the player breaks even. For many this might sound like a good bet to make but as a player you must realize the likelihood of a dealer getting Blackjack, which is very unlikely with the first two cards. It is typically regarded as somewhat of a fool’s bet, but to novice players appears to be sound thinking. Some experts have even gone so far as to say that this bet should never be made unless a player is counting the cards. Many casinos regard card counting as cheating and a player should never engage in any activity that would be considered unethical.
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One of the most misunderstood aspects of playing Blackjack is that of splitting a pair of cards. Understanding when to split, and when to stay with what you have is crucial to your play. As ever, a lo