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Perfect Card Counting Every Time
It’s time to cut to the chase. Almost every post on blackjack forums, almost every article and most experts agree that card counting devices are useless.
There has also been a lot written about how they are also illegal.
To a certain extent I agree on both counts, but there are exceptions that should be noted.
It is a fact that most card counting devices are inferior to counting. I could go down the line and critique each one but suffice it to say that most of them have serious flaws. Some can’t be used in any casino because they cannot be hidden, one is sold by a convicted internet scam artist, most do not have the capability to give the true count, at least one is a throwback to the 1970’s and takes as long to master as card counting itself, some have issues with wiring and buttons. Most of them are completely overpriced.
As far as the illegality issue, electronic devices used to gain an advantage in casino games are illegal in nine states. Those states are Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey and Nevada. These 9 states account for approximately 45% of all casinos in the USA. The remainder of the states have NO laws against electronic devices.
There are also casinos on hundreds of cruise ships where there are no laws regarding electronic devices. Canada has 123 casinos and no laws against electronic devices.
Consider the rest of the world which has over 3300 casinos, most with no laws barring electronic devices and it begins to come into focus that perhaps there is a place in card counting for an electronic device if it performs correctly. After all, most Forum posts, articles and expert commentary out of hand dismiss ALL counting devices and lump them all together, when the only fact is that they are all different. The other issue is the legality of these devices.
The common thread is that they are illegal and don’t work. A question comes to mind in this regard. If they don’t work why are they illegal? Certainly some don’t work or work only as well as card counting, so why are they illegal? You would think the casinos would welcome anything that didn’t work, wouldn’t you?
Most of the negative comments and articles concern legality, but there are card counting purists that take the stand that says why use a counting device when you get the same results by counting cards. These people have already spent innumerable hours honing their counting skills and may be a little jealous of anyone that can perform at their same level or higher without all of the work.
The fact is that a card counting device is easier to use than merely counting cards. It can be more accurate, thereby making it more efficient than counting. It virtually eliminates mistakes. Also there is less fatigue which leads to fewer mistakes.
The perfect counting device should be easy to use, undetectable, capable of converting the running count to the true count, small enough to hide and it must be sturdy. May I add, it should be priced fairly.
I have developed the perfect card counting device, you were wondering where this article was going, one that conforms to all of the above criteria and then some. I call my invention The Wiz. Simply put it is the worlds most powerful and easy to use card counting computer.
Without going into the details in this article, it works better than card counting, almost DOUBLING your winning percentage, no matter what count you use.
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The Legendary MIT Blackjack Team Cards Counting All the Way to the Bank
During the 1990’s, a group of students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston successfully managed to beat casinos in Las Vegas as well as worldwide in their own game blackjack. Known as the legendary MIT Blackjack Team, these guys made millions of dollars in just a few years. Interestingly enough, the exact amount of cash they managed to nab before they got barred from Las Vegas’ gaming venues, however, has never become public knowledge.
The reason behind the Team’s tremendous successful is their usage of card counting systems. Card counting is a strategy applied in card games helping determine situations in which the player has a probability advantage over the house. The basic principle behind such systems is that a card deck with a higher proportion of high cards (Aces and tens) to low cards is to the player’s favor. Strategy adjustments are made according to the ratio of high cards to low cards.
At first, however, the students had no actual interest in blackjack and card counting strategies. In fact, they used blackjack as practice for probability theories they studied in an MIT course, called ‘How to Gamble if you Must.’ The students would meet after classes and play blackjack. This was a harmless after school activity. Nevertheless, soon enough, they discovered they were really good at it and turned blackjack play into their business.
The Team managed to create a sophisticated underground training network spanning apartments, classrooms as well as warehouses scattered around Boston where they worked on their blackjack skills. Before any of them was allowed to advance to live casino play, each player had to pass rigorous blackjack playing tests in simulated casino conditions. These conditions included typical casino distractions, such as sounds and motion. When they felt they were ready, they traveled to Vegas. When they arrived, they pretended to be total strangers.
Each Team member was assigned one of a selection of well-polished fake identities. On many occasions, the students pretended to be the offspring of wealthy foreigner business tycoons. They would walk into the gaming venue with thousands of dollars, posing as spoiled brats from filthy rich families. For a very long period of time, casinos never suspected a thing. Moreover, casino employees welcomed them expecting to make great profits from their losses.
To make it easier for them to remain unspotted by pit bosses, the Team members were divided into three types of players: Spotters, Gorillas and Big Players. Each type of a player had a very defined role. The Spotter never played above minimum table limit. His part of the job was simply to count cards and signal other members of the Team when the decks were into his favor. Then, others entered the game with their impressive bankrolls.
The Gorilla was only to play, without any card counting. The Gorilla’s job was to confuse the casino operators. He was both a player and a performer. He pretended to be a high roller with lots of cash. The Big Player’s role wsa both play and count the cards. The MIT Team’s Big Players were stylish card counters disguised as privileged high rollers. They used all sorts of playing strategies which certainly gave a significant boost to their bankrolls.
The Team’s success came to its unfortunate end they were ultimately identified by Griffin Investigation Company, an investigation agency that worked for casino houses across the world. Soon enough, all members of the MIT Blackjack Team were denied entrance to casinos. After several fruitless attempts to improve their moves, in 1997, the MIT Team split altogether. Ben Mezrich, a member of the MIT Team, authored “Bringing Down the House,” a book about the Team’s famed adventures.