Card counting in blackjack isn’t illegal, but casino property owners heavily frown upon the use of this technique to gain huge profits. They lose a considerable amount of money when an intelligent and talented counter plays, so naturally they do everything possible to prevent it happening. If you know how to count or would like to learn, it is important you understand how to not get caught doing so.
The first part of avoiding get penalized by a casino is to do your research on who owns certain properties. All MGM properties will have monitoring in their casinos for their own property. If you count while playing blackjack on one property in Las Vegas and go to another that they own, you could easily get caught and penalized. However, going to independently owned casinos and different hotels each time can result in completely different outcomes.
While working in teams has its benefits, you must be sure you trust every single team member completely. It is better to keep your teams very small so you don’t have to worry about too many technicalities. Building a card counting team is hard work and requires attention to detail, but if you are determined to learn and to work card counting in blackjack, here are some important tips you should remember.
The most important aspect of card counting in blackjack is to learn as much as possible about the game. You can’t sit at home and learn card counting if you don’t know how to play, and you especially can’t learn how to count cards if you don’t have someone willing to put in the time to teach you. If you feel as though you are prolonging the inevitable, dwindling your hours, and losing money in your “card counting quest” then you are definitelyeding the wrong things.
While learning card counting, pay very close attention to the dewabet strategy. You were taught how to play blackjack through mainly emails and text book examples. Never break a text book interview when the deck of cards is in front of you as you should be concentrating on the game. If you must learn to count cards, practice first on a card counting no system instead of the actual game. You have to learn what the middle of the deck is, and what particular values it will add or subtract to your card count. Counting cards in this way will allow you to know what you need to do with whatever cards you are dealt.
While learning card counting, it is also important to understand your own emotional pattern when playing blackjack. You are not required to be able to count cards, but if you understand your basic strategy when playing blackjack, you can add an extra element to your card counting range. Likewise, you can throw out your own original basic strategy and adjust yours during play. A great way to do this is to remember your all time loss in big games, and how much you have won since you began playing. This gives you a baseline to work from, while you learn how to count cards. The easiest method of doing this is to keep a note of your big losses, and your big wins. You’ll be able to tell if you are beginning to lose more frequently when you are working from home, or if you are catching more draws than you are supposed to.
Home based card counting is a mathematical process that allows a player to beat the casinos advantage. Players can determine if a deck (or a section of a deck) is more rich in high cards or low cards. They can also determine if cards are in proportion to the deck. These are all methods of figuring out an approximate card counting range. While card counting is considered cheating, many players don’t care one way or the other.
Players can lose, especially if they are inexperienced, but experienced players can also beat the system. The two ways players lose is to mis-manage their bankroll and to mis-time their bets. When bankroll management is poor, players toss money they shouldn’t be tossing, and they lose the respect of their peers. When they bet too frequently, they lose the respect of the table, and most importantly, they lose control.
The foundation of learning to count cards is a business of neat counting, as opposed to guesses and hunches. There are many players who are excellent at memorizing cards, and they are usually extremely disciplined. When you learn to count cards, you must do your homework. You’ll be working with hundreds, if not thousands, of cards. You cannot make one mistake. Poker is a game of incomplete information, and you want to be able to quickly and accurately classify each new card that comes your way. You must be “semi-conscious” of every change that occurs on the table. If you are thinking about your hand, you have to keep in mind what you know about it, and what your opponents are thinking about their hands.
