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Card counting isn't considered illegal. Casinos have the right to deny service to anyone, and of makes sense to deny players from playing a game in which they have an advantage versus the house. This isn't cheating in any sense of the word. 994 P.2d 1151 (2000) CHEN v. NEVADA STATE GAMING CONTROL BOARD and Monte Carlo Resort & Casino: This case ...

Blackjack dealers have no options, they follow a strict algorithm that will depend on their casino. The dealer waits until the players have exercised all their options, then the dealer reveals his hidden card and hits until he has at least 17 (most common). The only variation I'm familiar with is a rule where the dealer will hit a soft 17 (any 17 with an ...

Card counting ISN'T illegal. (Unless you use a "device" such as a computer to do so in Nevada, which is a felony under Nevada law.) Card counting is frowned upon because it violates the UNWRITTEN "law" (that the casino is supposed to have the edge). From the CASINO's point of view, it is a case of "if this isn't illegal, it ought to be." Hence they take ...

Just a little addition to the previous answer: Imagine you have the opportunity to play blackjack against a thousand people. You have a few advantages, but also have to play by strict and predictable conventions, but the thousand can play in any manner they choose. You also know that one of those thousand is capable of card-counting. You wouldn't risk your ...

Casinos are much like any other business; if they want, they can tell you that you are no longer welcome for any reason, or no reason at all. There are some exceptions, primarily the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which prevents "places of public accomodation" (basically any property that welcomes the average Joe coming in off the street) from refusing service ...

I think winning an excessive number of times get you thrown out of a casino. And the casino will then try to find "good" reasons like card counting or whatever dodgy moves you made. If splitting tens is one of them, and you placed a high bet and you won a lot, then certainly the casino will use that to support their claim. If you just split tens and then ...

The answer to this is most likely no since a casino wants players to maximize their bets and placing any kind of limit that would keep a player betting lower would not be in their best interests. Minimum and Maximum bets at a table are established to maximize the amount that a casino can win while limiting a player to take advantage of long term odds to win ...

Yes, there are flash cards in the excellent book by Ken Uston titled "Million Dollar Blackjack" This is a great book with interesting stories and strategies for different house rules. Applies to counters and non-counters; single, double, and multiple deck games. Vegas, Reno, AC rules explained as well. I think you can find it for less than $20. Good luck ...

You're obviously going to hit, so the only question is whether to double or not. Since you have about a 70% chance of ending at something 16 or lower on a double, you really have to be looking for the dealer to bust. There's no chance of you busting, so if the dealer is showing a lousy card like a 5 or a 6, doubling seems to make sense. Otherwise, I'd just ...

The dealer knows what both of his cards are. In casino play, the dealer has no options. He always has to hit values below 16/17 (the exact number varies by casino), and has to stay when his cards are higher. In non-casino play, often the dealer is just another player and has the same options as you. This is not really blackjack and will not use the same ...

A way for colluders to gain an advantage in blackjack is the "Big Player" tactic, discussed in my answer to this question: Why is card counting considered illegal in Blackjack? And in one of his "Bringing Down the House" series of books, Ben Mezrich talked about how a skilled player would insert the "cut" (and shown) card at exactly a particular place in ...

In a loose sense, players can collaborate by signaling each other their hole card when the deal is one up one down. this allows far better optimization by almost doubling the known number of cards for the sharp who counts. Especially true if one or more goes for small bets and lots of draws. The more cards are known to a sharp, the better he's able to ...

The dealer first has to determine if he has blackjack. This is done by having the 10 pointers and Ace being marked in a way that the dealer can tell if it is a blackjack but otherwise can't tell. (Note that the dealer can't tell if they have two aces or 20) If the dealer has a blackjack then once the players have chosen whether or not to get insurance that ...

Like other executives, dealers, pit bosses, and "floor (wo)men" in casinos are concerned about "career risk." This could occur if they lose too much money to the "public" for the casino. Hence the concern about card counters, who will "make money" off the casino (or at least have a positive "expectation.") In the example of the person who drew a three to 18 ...

Are you sure this is something you want/need? Many casinos do not care if you play with the strategy card on the table in front of you. Some casinos also provide them if requested. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110602191708AAVZtUx http://www.blackjackinfo.com/bb/showthread.php?t=520

It's hard to say for sure, because there aren't a lot of places that prevent you from splitting aces, so there isn't a lot of strategy available that I could find about a soft 12 that says anything other than "split them, duh." From what I could find, it looks to me like the consensus is to play a soft 12 just a bit more conservatively than a soft 13. One ...