Blackjack Card Counting
Thursday April 3, 2008
The release of the movie 21 is sparking a new interest in the game of Blackjack and more specifically in card counting. The movie follows the exploits of a group of MIT students who played as a Blackjack team and utilized card counting to take the Las Vegas casinos for millions of dollars. By using card counting a Blackjack player can gain the edge over the casino. Card counting is not illegal but the casinos can bar players if they catch you. Here is how card counting works.
Comments
I was very disappointed to see that the blackjack tables at Harrah’s in Atlantic City had gone to 6:5 for blackjack payoffs and the dealer must hit a soft 17.
I hadn’t been there for a year and was shocked. I made my concerns shared with the mangagement. I won’t be back.
Those rule changes knock the heck out of the odds for the players.
I get the impression that casinos would be very happy if they could just have slots and nothing else.
Stay away from those 6:5 Blackjack games. It increase the house edge by 1.5%