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Are matrix numbers available for the new single deck ‘6 to 5’ games? Particularly with doubling allowed only on 10 and 11, and doubling allowed on splits. Or maybe a ‘best practices’ substitute?
Two things: 1) It’s going to be tough to beat 6 to 5 counting. The starting house edge is just too high. 2) There are no changes in either the strategy or the index numbers due to the rule changes. (Just ignore the ones you cannot use because of rule restrictions.)
But you should seriously be looking at the 6-deck games that pay 3:2 instead of playing the single deck 6:5 games.
I have a question. Does anyone know of a website where I can learn quickly how to count cards? I was invited to go on a trip with some friends of mine and there will be some casinos there and I would like to make some cash to buy some drinks for them as an appreciation gift for inviting me. The thing is that the trip is tomorrow and I am a little bit short on time. my plan is to learn the basics and when and how to bet. Later on I will read this lessons to become better at it. Please answer
I was just on this site to look at some info Ken had about the Gamemaster in regards to a review of his book on Blackjack Forum. I saw your questions. First, there is NO one that can learn card counting in one day. This is not a quick, easy, get rich scheme. I don’t know if you know basic strategy already but if you do, stick to that. If not, then take a look at the Wizard’s simplified basic strategy at:
You can also go to Ken’s Blackjack Basic Strategy engine; place the most common rules you think you will find and print out that chart for use at the table.
If this answer doesn’t suit you, you might check out the site I copied with card counting info on Blackjack Forum.
It would be stellar if the trainer could be configured to only deal the most difficult combinations for the player. The strategy engine on hitorsplit.com is not very useful as a trainer because of that defect.
It would be stellar if the trainer could be configured to only deal the most difficult combinations for the player. The strategy engine on hitorsplit.com is not very useful as a trainer because of that defect.
False. Even if you can’t wrap your hand around the fact it had no effect… That’s the course of that one hand, it happened to help or hurt in one instance, Over the ultimate course of millions of hands, it will all even out.
Hey bro I’m a dealer too, and I agree 100%, I’ve been dealing for 6 months and been a pit boss 3 of those months, how the long term effects on your body? Cuz my body always aches now
I’m in Las Vegas right now as I type this staying at the Luxor. I’ll be here for 2 weeks. I took your advice and lost $3,000.00 at the MGM 3/2 Blackjack tables outside the Rouge. I’ve studied card counting for 8 months. I can count through an entire 6 decks every time. Vary the bet using the Kelly method etc. None of that helped me last night.
1) An Asian women kept talking to me and was rubbing my leg with her leg and arm. I know Asian women want white guys but I’m not interested. This behavior was making me nervous. I lost the count and started losing. I broke even and left the table.
GET OVER YOURSELF. Firstly, this tool is a racist. Secondly, sorry to burst your little bubble, but there more Asian women who want nothing to do with a white guy than women who do. And if you knew how how these women are, you’d go home cry to your momma.
YOU LOST COUNTING BECAUSE OF SOMEONE YOU HAVE ‘NO INTEREST IN’ (yet allow it to continue??) AND YOU CALL YOURSELF ‘COUNTING CARDS’???? What a tosser!
You must be like 22 years old or something, tosser.
2) The pit boss knew I was counting. He walked up and gave me an intimidating look. The dealer was rude and could not even speak English.
He knew you were counting EVEN THOUGH YOU WERE LOSING MONEY??? You must be REALLY, REALLY BAD at this, schmuck. The 8 months you have claimed to have ‘spent’ on “card counting” would have been better used for you to get pregnant by an Asian guy. At least you would have laid an egg, considering 8 months is a lot of time to waste on doing jack all.
3) The dealer puts the cards on the table to cover up hit on 17 or stand on 17. This forces you to ask.
AND you still play at this table? Wow… the pull of An Asian girl is really something! Obviously you have no business being in a casino, nor on a topic on CARD COUNTING to win.
4) The dealer at the MGM uses a mirror to see her down card then starts telling me how I should play. This is bullshit. I would have never sat down if there was a mirror. That’s cheating. If I did that I would be thrown out or arrested.
Why are you even there? Obviously to win money is not the reason.
5) I lost $3,000.00 in a matter of minutes. It was no fun. It was a complete waste. The dealer got 14 blackjacks. They were winning every hand. NOBODY plays that good! I never saw them shuffle. I feel cheated. To study this long to card count then coming out to Vegas to put it into action and losing $3,000.00 in a few minutes on the first day! This is Bull. I’m super pissed! This was no fun at all and a complete waste of time.
That’s why you have no business playing Blackjack at all. You have NO IDEA on bankroll and how much you should bet even though you claim to have ‘studied’. You are such a tool and joke.
6) Card counting is bullshit. Every time you flip a quarter it’s an independent event. There is no law of physics that says it will be 50/50. You can flip a quarter 10 times and get tails 9 times in a row. This is exactly what happened to me last night at the MGM. And there is NO GUARANTEE that you will get heads 9 times in a row if you play long enough. All that money is GONE. WASTED.
And you claim to have spent 8 months doing something which you didn’t even investigate on whether there are sound rules behind the math or not? You seem to really disrespect your time, which is your life. You stay and play at a table which is disadvantageous to you. You stay and claim to let a woman rub you (whom you claim you have no interest in). You lost your money with no idea of a bankroll and how it works despite claiming to spend 8 months on the topic.
You must be a FOOL.
7) I started getting a major attitude with the stupid rude dealer who cannot speak English! Where do they hire these people!? There are ALLOT of people that need jobs! Why hire some women who worked at a Hanoi whorehouse who cannot tell you about comps or why there is a mirror on the table!
Again…. you are a racist sorry excuse of a human being. I really feel for your parents.
8) I used my M Life Card. I got it at the desk there. I lose $3,000.00 in minutes and the pit boss refuses to comp me!!! I was dressed like a movie star. This guys comes over and stares me down. When I asked about comps he puts the card on my table like “fuck you” and walks away. Yes I was super pissed and I think that’s understandable. There is NO WAY a dealer could play THAT WELL UNLESS THEY WERE CHEATING! I say the cards on the tables and NEVER saw her shuffle them! I just assumed she did.
Yes. This just confirms you are A GREAT BIG LOSER. You, Mr Racist, lost money at their tables and they won’t even comp you. LOL. What a tosser.
I win money off casinos here in Asia and they comp me with free rooms in 5 star hotels, and my player points are automatically set into the system whenever I play. Without even the need for me to open my mouth at all. And I can even use my points to buy luxury items in any of the shops here. International luxury brands from watches to high fashion to restaurants by celebrity chefs. I pity you.
9) The environment ruined my counting. I was reduced to a nervous wreck. I was fumbling, behind on the count, the dealer was rude, the pit boss knew (and for some reason let me continue) and this was just an overall awful experience. A total waste of time. This is the last time I will gamble. I’m just going to focus on my business. At least there when I lose $3,000.00 I can file in court.
That’s what you produce after 8 months of claimed work???? LOL. Please do not reproduce. Even the egg. You sound like a bad deal from beginning to end.
10) Think about this next time you tell everyone to play at the MGM Grand. All the Stand on soft 17 tables were $100.00 minimums. On a Sunday night no less! The non shuffling, the covering up of the tables so you have to ASK if they are hitting on 17 (what tourist asks that question) the god dammed mirror, the crowd, the rude dealer giving suggestions while looking at her mirror (AKA cheating) and losing $3,000.00 in what felt like minutes WITH PERFECT BASIC STRATEGY PLAY was the worst most wasteful experience ever. This was a total waste of time and money! Not to mention the airfare, hotels, outrageous prices of food and drink. I’m never coming here again!
Lol. Despite all these….. you still play.
Such a dreamer. Card counting is work and solid strategy. Not something for a tosser like you who KNOWS JACK to come and try to ‘win money’ like buying lottery (and failing, and playing at a disadvantageous table, no one forced you to play there, and losing count at the table!!!! And then turn around and blame the technique, the Asian girl, the pit boss, the dealer, the casino. Basically everyone except yourself).
BTW, the Asian girl could have just been tolerating you and on her blog, she wrote, ‘There I was in MGM Grand and there was this schmuck who kept pushing at our already crowded table….. dressed like a 1970s porn star and thinking he was some flasher….. what a creep. I didn’t tell him off for his pushing simply because I felt sorry for him since he lost the moment he sat down. Lost all the cash he brought… a paltry $3000 in a matter of minutes. He was obnoxious and rude, expected to be treated like a king just because he was white, mean to everyone there, including other patrons of the casino. Left our table with his tail between his legs after being cleaned out. Good riddance.
You should just play at the slot machines next to those old folks. That’s where you belong if you intend to step into a casino again. Tosser.
I have won many times of my capital and to date, I am still playing with profits from the casino. They comp generously.
Even before knowing basic strategy and card counting, I was just playing by instinct. AND YET I STILL WON.
And now, after knowing both, I am just a better player.
Really feel sorry for you… and your parents.
Please never mention EVER that you count cards. Because you can’t. Not even close.
Card counting is a tool to give you an edge over the dealer. The tool can never beat the dealer- only you can beat the dealer using the tool effectively. You need to have discipline in order to use your tool effectively.
Fortunately, other players at the table do not change the strategy at all. Whether playing heads up or at a full table, basic strategy is the best way to play each hand without using any further information about the remaining deck composition.
I assume you are asking why basic strategy says to hit 16vT, but Hi-Lo strategy is to stand when the count is zero (or better). Well, 16vT is a very close call in basic strategy. If you’re dealt (T,6) vs T off the top of a freshly shuffled shoe, notice that the running count is actually -1 now. That’s enough to swing the decision. That is why basic strategy says to hit, even though the card counting index is zero. Yes, it’s a common point of confusion.
It gets even crazier when you look at the confusing possibility when surrender is available. See 16vT.
Doubling down gives a chance to double the amount of your bet after seeing your first two cards. For that privilege, you’ll give up the ability to draw more than one card, but in many cases, it’s a great deal. You mentioned a hand with a total of 10 in the first two cards. If the dealer has a 2 through 9 up, you should double down because you’re a big favorite to win the hand.
Are matrix numbers available for the new single deck ‘6 to 5’ games? Particularly with doubling allowed only on 10 and 11, and doubling allowed on splits. Or maybe a ‘best practices’ substitute?
Thanks for the online BJ course.
Steve
Two things:
1) It’s going to be tough to beat 6 to 5 counting. The starting house edge is just too high.
2) There are no changes in either the strategy or the index numbers due to the rule changes. (Just ignore the ones you cannot use because of rule restrictions.)
But you should seriously be looking at the 6-deck games that pay 3:2 instead of playing the single deck 6:5 games.
Now I have to go back to lesson 1 and see if I can force myself to start practicing the “counting”…I guess
I have a question.
Does anyone know of a website where I can learn quickly how to count cards?
I was invited to go on a trip with some friends of mine and there will be some casinos there and I would like to make some cash to buy some drinks for them as an appreciation gift for inviting me.
The thing is that the trip is tomorrow and I am a little bit short on time.
my plan is to learn the basics and when and how to bet.
Later on I will read this lessons to become better at it.
Please answer
I was just on this site to look at some info Ken had about the Gamemaster in regards to a review of his book on Blackjack Forum. I saw your questions. First, there is NO one that can learn card counting in one day. This is not a quick, easy, get rich scheme. I don’t know if you know basic strategy already but if you do, stick to that. If not, then take a look at the Wizard’s simplified basic strategy at:
http://wizardofodds.com/games/blackjack/basics/#toc-Wizard27sSimpleStrategy
You can also go to Ken’s Blackjack Basic Strategy engine; place the most common rules you think you will find and print out that chart for use at the table.
If this answer doesn’t suit you, you might check out the site I copied with card counting info on Blackjack Forum.
I was wondering what should a player do if he lost the count of the cards dealt and does the count have to always be exact?
It would be stellar if the trainer could be configured to only deal the most difficult combinations for the player. The strategy engine on hitorsplit.com is not very useful as a trainer because of that defect.
Of course this post applies for Spanish 21.
It would be stellar if the trainer could be configured to only deal the most difficult combinations for the player. The strategy engine on hitorsplit.com is not very useful as a trainer because of that defect.
False. Even if you can’t wrap your hand around the fact it had no effect… That’s the course of that one hand, it happened to help or hurt in one instance, Over the ultimate course of millions of hands, it will all even out.
Hey bro I’m a dealer too, and I agree 100%, I’ve been dealing for 6 months and been a pit boss 3 of those months, how the long term effects on your body? Cuz my body always aches now
Man- you are so full of it. Surrender and 3-2 payout in BJ are the two rules that significantly improve the players odd.
No one can always a leave a winner. Don’t care how you play.
What a schmuck this ‘Michael’.
I’m in Las Vegas right now as I type this staying at the Luxor. I’ll be here for 2 weeks. I took your advice and lost $3,000.00 at the MGM 3/2 Blackjack tables outside the Rouge. I’ve studied card counting for 8 months. I can count through an entire 6 decks every time. Vary the bet using the Kelly method etc. None of that helped me last night.
1) An Asian women kept talking to me and was rubbing my leg with her leg and arm. I know Asian women want white guys but I’m not interested. This behavior was making me nervous. I lost the count and started losing. I broke even and left the table.
GET OVER YOURSELF. Firstly, this tool is a racist. Secondly, sorry to burst your little bubble, but there more Asian women who want nothing to do with a white guy than women who do. And if you knew how how these women are, you’d go home cry to your momma.
YOU LOST COUNTING BECAUSE OF SOMEONE YOU HAVE ‘NO INTEREST IN’ (yet allow it to continue??) AND YOU CALL YOURSELF ‘COUNTING CARDS’???? What a tosser!
You must be like 22 years old or something, tosser.
2) The pit boss knew I was counting. He walked up and gave me an intimidating look. The dealer was rude and could not even speak English.
He knew you were counting EVEN THOUGH YOU WERE LOSING MONEY??? You must be REALLY, REALLY BAD at this, schmuck. The 8 months you have claimed to have ‘spent’ on “card counting” would have been better used for you to get pregnant by an Asian guy. At least you would have laid an egg, considering 8 months is a lot of time to waste on doing jack all.
3) The dealer puts the cards on the table to cover up hit on 17 or stand on 17. This forces you to ask.
AND you still play at this table? Wow… the pull of An Asian girl is really something! Obviously you have no business being in a casino, nor on a topic on CARD COUNTING to win.
4) The dealer at the MGM uses a mirror to see her down card then starts telling me how I should play. This is bullshit. I would have never sat down if there was a mirror. That’s cheating. If I did that I would be thrown out or arrested.
Why are you even there? Obviously to win money is not the reason.
5) I lost $3,000.00 in a matter of minutes. It was no fun. It was a complete waste. The dealer got 14 blackjacks. They were winning every hand. NOBODY plays that good! I never saw them shuffle. I feel cheated. To study this long to card count then coming out to Vegas to put it into action and losing $3,000.00 in a few minutes on the first day! This is Bull. I’m super pissed! This was no fun at all and a complete waste of time.
That’s why you have no business playing Blackjack at all. You have NO IDEA on bankroll and how much you should bet even though you claim to have ‘studied’. You are such a tool and joke.
6) Card counting is bullshit. Every time you flip a quarter it’s an independent event. There is no law of physics that says it will be 50/50. You can flip a quarter 10 times and get tails 9 times in a row. This is exactly what happened to me last night at the MGM. And there is NO GUARANTEE that you will get heads 9 times in a row if you play long enough. All that money is GONE. WASTED.
And you claim to have spent 8 months doing something which you didn’t even investigate on whether there are sound rules behind the math or not? You seem to really disrespect your time, which is your life. You stay and play at a table which is disadvantageous to you. You stay and claim to let a woman rub you (whom you claim you have no interest in).
You lost your money with no idea of a bankroll and how it works despite claiming to spend 8 months on the topic.
You must be a FOOL.
7) I started getting a major attitude with the stupid rude dealer who cannot speak English! Where do they hire these people!? There are ALLOT of people that need jobs! Why hire some women who worked at a Hanoi whorehouse who cannot tell you about comps or why there is a mirror on the table!
Again…. you are a racist sorry excuse of a human being. I really feel for your parents.
8) I used my M Life Card. I got it at the desk there. I lose $3,000.00 in minutes and the pit boss refuses to comp me!!! I was dressed like a movie star. This guys comes over and stares me down. When I asked about comps he puts the card on my table like “fuck you” and walks away. Yes I was super pissed and I think that’s understandable. There is NO WAY a dealer could play THAT WELL UNLESS THEY WERE CHEATING! I say the cards on the tables and NEVER saw her
shuffle them! I just assumed she did.
Yes. This just confirms you are A GREAT BIG LOSER. You, Mr Racist, lost money at their tables and they won’t even comp you. LOL. What a tosser.
I win money off casinos here in Asia and they comp me with free rooms in 5 star hotels, and my player points are automatically set into the system whenever I play. Without even the need for me to open my mouth at all. And I can even use my points to buy luxury items in any of the shops here. International luxury brands from watches to high fashion to restaurants by celebrity chefs. I pity you.
9) The environment ruined my counting. I was reduced to a nervous wreck. I was fumbling, behind on the count, the dealer was rude, the pit boss knew (and for some reason let me continue) and this was just an overall awful experience. A total waste of time. This is the last time I will gamble. I’m just going to focus on my business. At least there when I lose
$3,000.00 I can file in court.
That’s what you produce after 8 months of claimed work???? LOL. Please do not reproduce. Even the egg.
You sound like a bad deal from beginning to end.
10) Think about this next time you tell everyone to play at the MGM Grand. All the Stand on soft 17 tables were $100.00 minimums. On a Sunday night no less! The non shuffling, the covering up of the tables so you have to ASK if they are hitting on 17 (what tourist asks that question) the god dammed mirror, the crowd, the rude dealer giving suggestions while looking at her mirror (AKA cheating) and losing $3,000.00 in what felt like minutes WITH PERFECT BASIC STRATEGY PLAY was the worst most wasteful experience ever. This was a total waste of time and money! Not to mention the airfare, hotels, outrageous prices of food and drink. I’m never coming here again!
Lol. Despite all these….. you still play.
Such a dreamer. Card counting is work and solid strategy. Not something for a tosser like you who KNOWS JACK to come and try to ‘win money’ like buying lottery (and failing, and playing at a disadvantageous table, no one forced you to play there, and losing count at the table!!!! And then turn around and blame the technique, the Asian girl, the pit boss, the dealer, the casino. Basically everyone except yourself).
BTW, the Asian girl could have just been tolerating you and on her blog, she wrote, ‘There I was in MGM Grand and there was this schmuck who kept pushing at our already crowded table….. dressed like a 1970s porn star and thinking he was some flasher….. what a creep. I didn’t tell him off for his pushing simply because I felt sorry for him since he lost the moment he sat down.
Lost all the cash he brought… a paltry $3000 in a matter of minutes. He was obnoxious and rude, expected to be treated like a king just because he was white, mean to everyone there, including other patrons of the casino. Left our table with his tail between his legs after being cleaned out. Good riddance.
You should just play at the slot machines next to those old folks. That’s where you belong if you intend to step into a casino again. Tosser.
I have won many times of my capital and to date, I am still playing with profits from the casino. They comp generously.
Even before knowing basic strategy and card counting, I was just playing by instinct. AND YET I STILL WON.
And now, after knowing both, I am just a better player.
Really feel sorry for you… and your parents.
Please never mention EVER that you count cards. Because you can’t. Not even close.
Dam bro o know it’s to late bit listen. Wenever ur in that situation, u GET UP AND WALK AWAY FROM THAT TABLE before u lose anymore money.
Card counting is a tool to give you an edge over the dealer. The tool can never beat the dealer- only you can beat the dealer using the tool effectively. You need to have discipline in order to use your tool effectively.
Thank you so much!
It’s funny you mentioned Wong Halves, his bj21 site is how I ended up discovering your site.
Fortunately, other players at the table do not change the strategy at all. Whether playing heads up or at a full table, basic strategy is the best way to play each hand without using any further information about the remaining deck composition.
I assume you are asking why basic strategy says to hit 16vT, but Hi-Lo strategy is to stand when the count is zero (or better). Well, 16vT is a very close call in basic strategy. If you’re dealt (T,6) vs T off the top of a freshly shuffled shoe, notice that the running count is actually -1 now. That’s enough to swing the decision. That is why basic strategy says to hit, even though the card counting index is zero. Yes, it’s a common point of confusion.
It gets even crazier when you look at the confusing possibility when surrender is available. See 16vT.
Doubling down gives a chance to double the amount of your bet after seeing your first two cards. For that privilege, you’ll give up the ability to draw more than one card, but in many cases, it’s a great deal. You mentioned a hand with a total of 10 in the first two cards. If the dealer has a 2 through 9 up, you should double down because you’re a big favorite to win the hand.
For a full explanation of doubling, see Blackjack Rules: Part 3 – Player Choices