Card Counting in Blackjack

Card Counting is a blackjack strategy used to determine whether a player has the probability advantage over the house. In its basic level, card counting can help to decide where the high cards (aces and tens) are in a deck in a game. With this information a player can increase their bet to coincide with high valued cards being deal and possibly win more. Card counting is the important blackjack strategy in the casino.

The standard of card counting in blackjack is that a deck of cards with a high ratio of high card (ten-valued cards and aces) to low cards is good for the players, as the reverse (a deck with a high ratio of low cards to high cards) is good for the dealer. There are many causes for this: the game become more popular and they offer a higher payout than any other game, the dealer is more possible to bust a solid hand, insurance becomes beneficial and double-downs are more successful.

Opposing to the popular myth that card counters do not require savant features in order to card count, as they are not memorizing and tracking particular cards. Instead, give a heuristic point score to every card they see and track the only total score “this score is called the count”. Actually card counting needs little more, than easy addition, and may be division which depends on the system being used. It also needs the skill to do these tasks as also concentrates on playing the game properly.

As card counting becomes more common, more techniques were developed. Some like the Wang Halves or Zen count take the basic plus-minus card count and customized it to give the player higher possibilities of winning. Other than +1, 0 or -1 and in latest technology may involve +2 or -2, also counts particular cards like Aces. It helps the card counter to get a higher level of accurateness on higher valued cards, mainly Tens and Aces.

These advanced counting techniques need a special type of person, who keeps information of different variable of cards.

Card counting can provide a player a house edge between 0.5% and 1.5% which depends on the number of decks being used in a blackjack game. So in theory it works but in reality, casino is now wise to counting of cards and now systems required to stop it.

If you were thinking of online card counting, forget it, because all online casinos consistently shuffle the decks in every game.