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by Pastaman on June 24th, 2003

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Can you actually beat the house by counting cards in Blackjack?

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  • by mike blair on June 10th, 2005

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    Yeah, but the casinos make it awful hard. Counting cards isn'y cheating, and it isn't illegal, however, the casinos won't let you play if they suspect you are a counter.

    Another reason its hard to count cards in a casino is that for the most part, the casino has designed the rules of the game to take most of your advantage away. In Single deck games (which have become pretty rare) they will often shuffle after just one or two hands, regardless of how many cards are left, which obviously takes away the edge you would have had from the knowledge you had gathered. Most casinos only spread 6 or 8 deck shoe games, which are basically impossible to beat through countingMore and more casinos are going to what are known as "continuous shufflers". A continuos shuffler take the cards from every hand and randomly mixes them in with the other 300-400 cards in the shoe.

    So, the answer is yes, counting cards, under ideal circumstances, who give you an edge, but realistically, it's pretty hard.

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  • by PutBoy on April 2nd, 2007

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    Yes you can. I do it in bars, earns me the beer.

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  • by tlperl on January 16th, 2007

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    Yes, you can. But most casinos have made it impossible by implementing the continuous shoe. There used be six or eight deck shoes so it was conceivable that you could count. But not with the automatic shuffler/shoe! Those bastards!

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  • by cambsman on January 16th, 2007

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    Yes you can and it has been done by many people.
    However, casinos are a buisiness and a lot of them were built using mob money.
    A casino loves it when someone is lucky and wins big - its good publicity...
    What they will not stand is people making a living at their expense. If they catch you card counting you will be banned not just from that casino but al lthe big casinos in the world.
    They spend a lot of money on computers, scanners etc so that they can recognise known card counters. (You dont spend a lot of money to try and avoid the problem of card counting if card counting did not work).
    The most successful card counting techniques involve several people. There are lots of programs that have been made about it. Especially with the card counters being math graduates...

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  • by Repsychler on July 24th, 2003

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    Yeah, that's why the casinos spend time and money on busting card counters. If you get the travel channel, they have a lot of shows on vegas, and a few of them are about busting the cheaters.

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