How did this guy win $1.3 million playing Caribbean 21?

**aka23** · 9th July 2006, 09:08 PM

Originally Posted by gfkostas

As i recall Pirate had a limit of $10,000 a hand at BJ. With such a limit $1,3million is entirely feasible.

The thread mentioned that he started with a $1000 deposit. Turning $1000 to $1.3 million is obviously extremely unlikely when playing a 21-type game. It is possible that he was very lucky, but there might also be a special technique, perhaps one that relates to Caribbean 21 now using 255 decks. Maybe they used few enough decks in the past to get a card counting advantage with the frequent splitting (can split any hand in Caribbean 21).

**JohnGalt** · 9th July 2006, 09:31 PM

They still only allow you to bet like $5/hand on the game, right, so maybe they are still uncertain as to what happened.

**lucky21** · 10th July 2006, 06:33 AM

I was trying to win enough to buy a house lol, thats why i let it build up glad i did because the lawyers want 20% to fight it no win no pay so that still leaves me with some,
The biggest suggestion i think I could make is to keep calm If you jump up and down and chase a loss the game tends to laugh at you and go take this sucker, and you lose fast so keep cool, then find a good site i allways play a five or three hand game but normaly only bet one hand just throw in five hands at random.
I use basic strat, flat bet, and progressive bet that are all over the place so i dont realy have a system other than keep cool.

**khanhdom** · 10th July 2006, 07:15 AM

Originally Posted by lucky21

I was trying to win enough to buy a house lol, thats why i let it build up glad i did because the lawyers want 20% to fight it no win no pay so that still leaves me with some,
The biggest suggestion i think I could make is to keep calm If you jump up and down and chase a loss the game tends to laugh at you and go take this sucker, and you lose fast so keep cool, then find a good site i allways play a five or three hand game but normaly only bet one hand just throw in five hands at random.
I use basic strat, flat bet, and progressive bet that are all over the place so i dont realy have a system other than keep cool.

that's awesome, I hope you did get your house....lol

**Casinomeister** · 10th July 2006, 08:15 AM

Here is a synopsis from the "Best and Worst of 2004"
http://www.casinomeister.com/bestworst2004.html#wplayer

and a report in Casinomeister's Newsletter that gives a pretty good run-down on what happened.
http://www.casinomeister.com/newslet...march2004.html

and the player

http://www.casinomeister.com/forums/...rateofc21.html

**dominique** · 10th July 2006, 07:32 PM

Originally Posted by Casinomeister

Here is a synopsis from the "Best and Worst of 2004"
http://www.casinomeister.com/bestworst2004.html#wplayer

and a report in Casinomeister's Newsletter that gives a pretty good run-down on what happened.
http://www.casinomeister.com/newslet...march2004.html

and the player

http://www.casinomeister.com/forums/...rateofc21.html

It was interesting reading some of that again.

It was likely the most interesting case we ever had.