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Blackjack's Secret Strategy: Counting Cards

Blackjack is played by millions day in and day out possibly the whole twenty four hours in a day. Let us say you want to win at Blackjack so desperately that you would resort to anything legal, and then you are at the right spot, because we will show you how the counting card system in Blackjack works.

Card counting in Blackjack makes use of several systems, one being the hi-low system. This simply means that you play according to the card that is currently being revealed. The hi-low system assigns each card of the deck with a number. Sometimes these numbers vary depending on system used, but the hi-low system generally used a value of positive one (+1) and a value of negative on (-1). When you add all the values of the deck together they will turn out to be zero.

Counting cards is not as hard as people may assume, it is only because of film adaptations such as "21" that people started to get the misconception that you have to be a mathematical genius to be good at counting cards in Blackjack. This is not the case, because everybody can do it. Every card is assigned the positive or negative number and the total count is the total sum of the cards that have been revealed. Generally, lower face values are given a positive number and high face cards are given a negative.

You know that the total number of cards in one deck is 52, and you simply have to evaluate the chances of getting a positive number of negative numbers. Let us say you already counted 20 positive cards which means that there can only be six positive ones left in one deck, and thus the probability of getting a negative face card is very high, which means that the possibility of winning is very high too. The main problem with this strategy now is that most of the casinos nowadays use electronic shufflers and often use more than one card deck which makes it harder to count since you have to estimate if the overall card number is 52, 104, 156 and so on.

Counting cards in Blackjack can also be done with a team just like the movie "21" portrayed it. Make sure that you keep you counting cards undercover and limit yourself, because probable punishments by the casinos might be high. Counting cards is indeed legal, but the casino owners do not agree with that and thus they employed dozens of surveillance personnel specifically trained to find people who count cards.

The basics of card counting in Blackjack is easy to master and soon you will be able to beat any amateur player, but as mentioned earlier, be careful when it comes to the big casinos. Always play below the radar and try to act inconspicuous.