The 21st-Century Card Counter: The Pros' Approach to Beating Today's Blackjack - Softcover

Jones, Colin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1944877320 ISBN 13: 9781944877323

Verlag: Huntington Press, 2023

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Over the last 50 years, casinos have employed a seemingly endless series of tactics to discourage and intimidate card counters. Still, blackjack remains beatable, and offers enormous profit potential for informed players. Today’s new breed of blackjack player — focused, steadfast, and willing to do what it takes to play with an edge — has refined the practices employed by their predecessors and crafted a new playing paradigm.

Before the explosion of casino gambling in the 1990s, card counters were limited by the number of places at which they could ply their trade. Fearing exposure and expulsion, they sought longevity at the expense of maximizing the power of optimal betting and playing strategies. But in today’s market, with so many casinos large and small from which to choose, the modern-day card counter can eschew apprehension and evasion and meet the game head on.

The 21st-Century Card Counter is a highly authoritative guide to card counting for profit. Written by a blackjack pro who founded the famous Church Team, manages BlackjackApprenticeship.com, leads Blackjack Bootcamps, and has earned his livelihood beating casinos for more than two decades, this book provides all the information and direction you need, along with real-life stories and interviews with active advantage players, to give you the best chance of crushing the casinos in today’s blackjack world.

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Shortly after Colin Jones graduated college with a math degree, a friend learning to count cards loaned him a book on the subject. He began to study, then apply what he’d picked up from the book at the neighborhood casinos. Luckily, a large card-counting team recruited and trained his friend, who shared his newly perfected skills with Colin. The two teamed up to take on the local blackjack tables. They were so successful that they took on more partners and eventually found themselves running their own team and playing with a half-million dollars of investors’ money. Over the next four years, the Church Team won $3.2 million and provided the investors with a return that beat the stock market by 500%. After disbanding the team, Colin turned his attention to developing a blackjack-training website, BlackjackApprenticeship.com, and leading intensive Blackjack Bootcamp workshops. Today, he’s a battle-hardened advantage player who has trained hundreds of successful card counters to go hand-to-hand against casinos all over the world. The 21st-Century Card Counter is his first book.

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Imagine this scenario. You walk up to a roulette table and see on the digital display that the ball has landed on black the past 20 spins in a row. Now you ask a dozen gamblers what you should bet on. They’re likely to fall into two categories.

One group shouts, “Bet BLACK! Black is hot!”

The other group yells, “Bet RED! Red is due!”

In reality, both of those groups are wrong. Every spin of the roulette wheel is an independent event. And independent events have no impact on future events. Why do you think casinos install those digital display boards, tracking which numbers and colors have hit most recently? Are they trying to help you accurately predict the future pattern? Hardly. They know there’s no predictable pattern at the roulette table (or the baccarat table, crap table, or slot machine). Here’s where apophenia comes in.

Apophenia is the term neurologists use to define the reality that humans are universally looking for patterns in random information. Various theories attempt to explain why people often attribute the wrong conclusions to information, but no one debates the fact that apophenia happens all over the place and is on full display in casinos.

The most common form of apophenia is known as the “gambler’s fallacy,” where gamblers believe they’ve discovered patterns from random bits of information. If you’ve sat at a blackjack table, I guarantee you’ve heard many bold claims by the players, dealer, and likely even your own deceitful mind, all falsely based on the gambler’s fallacy.

One of the most common is believing that the other players at the table have an impact on whether you win or lose.

This false belief comes in many forms. “It’s a team sport.” “You need a strong anchor at third base.” “He just took the dealer’s bust card.”

It doesn’t matter where in the world you play this game. There’s a universal belief among gamblers that the game can be beaten with a solid cast of players... and a cooperative dealer. But that one player who isn’t performing as well as you is the reason you’ve been losing. (You have to come up with a new excuse if you happen to be playing alone.)

But the reality is that the other players at the table have no impact on your odds. Another player is just as likely to make a decision that results in you winning or losing the hand. You can play with the world’s smartest card counter or an orangutan and your odds won’t change one bit.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Huntington Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1944877320
• ISBN 13: 9781944877323
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 316
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