Blackjack Myths

Here are some myths and misconceptions prevalent in blackjack.

There should be a math genius to count cards

Counting cards is not to memorize all the cards in the shoe like Rain Man, or even track how many high cards, low and medium rose. The base count is whether to add or subtract the number 1: 1-1 +1 +1 +1 … etc not too complicated, right? That is what we call literally count, or count, any college student has the intellectual capacity to count, so unless you are a little older and very bright neurons, anyone can learn to count cards .

My Martingale (System / growth, etc..) Is infallible

No delivery system will allow you to change a losing party in the winning party. Martingale no, no system for blackjack is like other casino games, this is nonsense that only benefit the casino and you will at best lose a little money, at worst, some people believe in their system so they spend the rest of their life trying to prove, and at the cost of their life savings. To avoid absolutely.

View on the web this excellent article from Science magazine, where a mathematics teacher demonstrates the futility of martingales .

Use a new card game players disadvantage

Using a new card game would be less favorable to the players a card game that has already been used. The reason? Maps of a new package are ordered by color sets of 10 cards. To prevent this, carry casinos mixtures needed (the famous “soup”) to ensure that this mixture is effective at the opening of the table.

The location at the table would give an advantage or not, and influence the part of the dealer

The location of your seat at the table does not matter. If you play as a basic strategy, you get exactly the same opportunities as other places in the long term. The same observation can be made for card counters. In the same style of myth, if the player before the dealer draws a card too much or less, he does not win or lose the table, he is not responsible for the map draw the dealer thereafter.