Advanced Blackjack Card Counting
Blackjack Card Counting strategy is the most interesting, attractive, debatable point that a person might be searching for when playing Blackjack. The film the Rain Man showed how easy counting might be by an example of the general character Raymond Babbit that counts 6 decks easy and helped his bro to win a great amount of cash in Blackjack game. After that, the counting strategies and systems became one of the most often searches on the web. A lot of users were eager to know how to bring down the gambling place just like the Rain Man had.
The basic idea behind Blackjack Card Counting lies in the fact that a deck of cards with a higher percentage of high cards (tens and Aces) is great for the gambleer, while the higher rate of small cards is great for the dealer. Higher percentage of big cards is good for the gambleer simply cause the naturals are now more frequent, the croupier is more probable to lose a stiff hand combination (as he has to hit when lower 17), and all the double options are more successful.
The professional card counter would raise his/her wager when the count is in the player favour. In addition, the Blackjack tactic of card counters adjusts to the count and therefore gives the player larger mathematical odds. The tactic of card counting is not in learning the order of the cards but in keeping track of all the cards as they are dealt by adding and subtracting a particular assigned value to big and small cards to a different count.
Every count begins with a ”0”. After that, small values are subtracted or added to it depending on the value of the card that was just dealt. For example, If 10 is received first, the card count becomes -1, If a 2 follows, the count is now 0 etc.
Usually the Blackjack Card Counting strategies use the +1 and -1 count, providing the next values to the cards:
2- 7 are counted as +1
8 and 9 are counted as 0
10, Jack, Queen, King, Ace are valued as -1
This counting tactic is aimed at the plus count. In case the count is positive, the players are more likely to be dealt a Natural and the croupier is more probably to go over 21 as it signals about the fact that most small cards have been dealt, therefore the deck is high in high cards. Moreover, the large positive count signals you to wager larger sums of cash and therefore win much more. Whereas when the card count begins falling, you should bet less as the casino has the edge now.