Blackjack Practice

A simple exercise that will teach you to count cards is this: take a deck of cards and when a card that is –1 is drawn just say minus one and when a low card is drawn say one. When a neutral card is out of the deck don’t say anything and go further. That will make automatic the card count. Notice that you treat each card separately and you don’t have a running count yet.

It’s time now to learn how to keep the running count. After you can state the point value of the cards from a deck then you are ready to get to the next step.

Take a deck and remove 4 cards from it to verify how precise your count is. Then begin to count keeping the running count after each card is drawn. For example, your first card is a 10 then the running count is –1, the second is a J the running count is –2, the third is an 8 the running count is now –2, the fourth is a 3 the running count is –1 and so on.

You got to work at a deck until the accuracy is not a problem. Then you continue with 2, 3, 4 decks until you are accurate on those. Note that after this you got to work on speed and you got to take into account also the distractions from a real live casino. So your technique should have no flaw in order to allow you to perform it in the casino in a relaxed manner.

In order to improve the speed and the accuracy of your count you are going to learn some shortcuts that will help you tremendously and reduce the stress in the casino while making you appear natural.