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Before I knew better, I thought that card counting is a skill reserved for members of Mensa, or scientists, as the creation of Rainman. I mean, who can remember every card that has been treated in a shoe 4, 5, 6, and however many games and mentally calculating the cards that are still outstanding?

MIT Blackjack Team can do it. But then they are hand-picked group of genes of the most talented numerates from a university known for attracting the most brilliant mathematicians of the world. Keep the option on the right. Wrong.

Counting cards in blackjack is really not as difficult as it sounds. There are several methods to count the cards, and contrary to popular belief, none of them related to the memory of all the cards are dealt. One of the simplest method is the Hi-Lo.

Like all counting methods, the basis of this system based on the fact that a high card rich deck / shoe provides favorable conditions for the player to play. As “ten” cards in the deck / shoe, the better the player the chance to win, because they are able to do more hand-clapping and the dealer bust more often when they are forced to strike. And effective method to use Hi-Lo card counting allows the player to measure how high the bridge remaining high card / boot is.

The best part is, it is not necessary to memorize all the cards. All you need do is assign a value to each card, two, three, four, five and six years; 0 for seven, eight and four pins, -1 for the ten cards. Since each card is dealt, the corresponding value is added to a current account you need to keep the first card. Sounds simple, but it is actually quite hard to do when surrounded by distractions. And the casinos environments we know are full of distractions. Chat with other players, the dealer, service personnel and a large amount of in-your-face sound and images to be processed.