A video featuring Andy Bloch an MIT Team Member Card Counter.
17 Sep
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The MIT Card Counting team is portrayed in the new movie, “21″. The movie is based on a true story but it gets some key elements of real card counting wrong! Here is how the movie “21″ messed up. When it comes to Counting Cards, Hollywood looses the count.
I want to start out right away by telling you about myself. I spent over 10 years in the casino business in Las Vegas. During that time I was employed as a dealer, boxman, floorman, pit boss, and assistant casino manager. I have seen every casino game and probably every kind of system player there is. System players are easy to spot. They never seem to be having as much fun as the recreational gamblers. They are very serious and deliberate about what they are doing. Some will even try to disguise or hide what they are doing so the house doesn’t catch on. Now that is funny. Funny because the house loves system players. Why? Because there are no systems that can beat casino games. There are ways to gamble smart and stay ahead of the game, but that is not so much a system as it is a method and discipline. More about that later. Let me deal with each of three games that seem to be the most popular, blackjack, craps, and roulette.
Blackjack was derived from the French game vingt-et-un or twenty-one which originated in the 1700s. The Blackjack name came about as casinos in the USA, in order to attract players offered odds of up to 10 to 1 to any player who’s hand consisted of an Ace of spades and a blackjack (jack of spades or clubs).
Blackjack is one of the most popular casino games due to the simple fact that BlackJack like Poker is a game of luck as well as skill and therefore the casino can be consistently beaten by a skilled player using a proper strategy. More complicated strategies such as ‘card counting’ described below have added to the game’s popularity.