Blackjack cardcounting

[cisco]

I just finished watching a program on A & E called Bringing Down Vegas. This team if people from MIT learning the skill of card counting. These kids went on to win several million dollars. All have been blacklisted from casinos around the world.
The team leader is now making a living traveling around the country teaching card counting and the cost is $799. If anyone is interested, I jotted down his website from the TV.

http://www.blackjackscience.com

 

[RexBudler]

I saw the program too and it was very interesting.....the ones you mentioned were blackballed but each year new sets come and do the same thing until the same thing happens to them......crazy stuff but like you said it earned them alot of money...plus it isnt illegal so the worse case scenario would to be blackballed

 

[saint]

They wrote a book about it called "Bringing Down the House", soon to be a motion picture as well. A good quick read IMO...do a search it has been discussed on here before.

As far as card counting, my sister's husband has been doing it for years and is very efficient at it, and he wins probably 3 or 4 out of 5 times at the casino. It cuts the house advantage down to almost zero and a small % in your favor if done correctly.

 

[Red & Black]

Save the $799 and go buy "Blackjack for Blood" by Bryce Carlson. A friend of mine has used the system used in the book and wins nearly everytime that he hits the casinos. I've been studying this book for a few weeks and it is easy to pick up the system especially if you're able to do math in your head. Will be heading to casinos in a month or so to test it out, but before you try it in the casinos, make sure you have the system down perfectly or you'll just be paying the electric bill.

 

[Scott4USC]

Great post and I watched that show few weeks ago. Excellent show. I even was inspired to card count. I do have a few questions about card counting.

Cards 2-6 is +1
Cards 10-Ace -1
Cards 7-9 are ZERO VALUE

So I mastered the card counting (this is what the MIT students basically did) but I do not know the values. At what values will I be raising my bets???? I think MIT students said +15 was where deck was rich in high cards.

Single deck BJ what would be a good # to raise bets?

4 deck BJ?

5 deck?

6 deck?

etc...

I do not know if +15 is for 6 deck and if that number decreases as decks get smaller. Or maybe it is +10? Any card counters here I would appreciate your help. Thanks.

 

[Cie]

You guys should read 'Bringing Down the House'. Great book about the MIT card-counting operation.

 

[Cie]

Ooops. I didn't realize Saint had already mentioned the book.:weed: A very quick read indeed. I knocked it out ,along with several Bourbons, and watched the Matrix Reloaded between JFK and Heathrow 2 Septembers ago :drinky: :drinky:
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[auspice]

Don't you lose to much of the 'advantage' by the house using multiple decks and 'cutting' deep into the remaining deck? I honestly don't know, I'm just curious.

 

[saint]

Don't you lose to much of the 'advantage' by the house using multiple decks and 'cutting' deep into the remaining deck? I honestly don't know, I'm just curious.

Yes, but you bring that into account as you figure out your "true count". Say you are playing on an 8 deck shoe, and you have a +9 count (which is good for you, the deck has a higher proportion of high cards). Well, you guesstimate how many decks have been dealt, and however many remains determines your true count. So say we have a +9 count, and around 5 decks have been dealt. That means your "true count" is 9/3=3.

Make sense?

 

[TJBELL]

It's on the History Channel right now!!!!

 

[auspice]

yep. Makes perfect sense. It was obvious an advantage was had if the count was a positive +9 but it also was obvious that it wasn't as 'squewed' as it appeared because of the 'lost' cards of the cut. Estimating the remaing deck count would be the only practical solution. Thanks. Appreciate it.

 

[madjack sr]

Ooops. I didn't realize Saint had already mentioned the book.:weed: A very quick read indeed. I knocked it out ,along with several Bourbons, and watched the Matrix Reloaded between JFK and Heathrow 2 Septembers ago :drinky: :drinky:
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Who the HELL are you ?????????

 

[TBONEZ0295]

Now look here MJ SR. you better settle down :142lmao: