What Is The True Count? When counting cards in blackjack, your true count is the count normalized to a per deck number. Running Count Alone Is Not Enough In multideck games, simply keeping a running count isn’t enough for us to beat the game. In a balanced card counting system [...]

What Is A Betting Spread? A betting spread, or bet spread, is the amount by which a player varies their bets. In the case of card counting at blackjack, the player is varying their bet based on the true count. Betting spreads are usually expressed in a number of units. [...]

Hi‑Lo System Guide If you’ve watched any videos or read anything about card counting, it is almost certainly describing the Hi-Lo card counting system. It is the card counting system written about in the most popular card counting books, used by many of the most famous card counting teams, and [...]

How True Count Changes Your Edge For the hi-lo card counter (or really any card counting system that involves a true count conversion), all betting decisions are based on the true count. This is because the true count gives us an indication of how the edge has changed over time. [...]

Recommended Blackjack Bankroll and Money ManagementThere are three parts to blackjack money management: How to optimally bet (and the corresponding bankroll needed) Knowing how much to bring to a casino Knowing how to change your bets if you are losing My brother likes to joke with me whenever he knows [...]

Characteristics of a Successful Card Counter Chapter 4 SNEAK PEEK This is Chapter 4 of Colin’s book titled “The 21st Century Card Counter: The Pro's Approach to Beating Today's Blackjack” Do I Have What It Takes?The DNA of a Card Counter So it’s just that easy? Master the steps and [...]

"Colin, can I count cards at one of those live dealer online blackjack games?" I get asked this question nearly every week. To answer the question, let me first explain the conditions needed to beat blackjack with card counting: Rules that give the casino a small enough house edge that card [...]

5 Things you should know about Card Counting: Card counting is NOT cheating. Card counting is simply using your brain, like a winning chess player. Fortunately, using your brain is still perfectly legal in the US! There are a couple reasons why people think card counting is illegal. First off, [...]

Does Card Counting still work? Casinos don't want to have the tables turned on them. And that's just what card counting does. So is learning card counting futile? Aren't the casinos just going to change the rules? Isn't the facial recognition software too good to out-smart? Won't the shuffle machines [...]