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Blackjack is the casinos' best moneymaker precisely because people believe the game can be beaten. Casinos are forever bemoaning their losses to card counters, and constantly changing their rules and dealing procedures to make their games tougher for these feared blackjack experts. Casino floormen, with increasing frequency, unceremoniously bar suspected counters from their tables. Promoting this paranoia is one of the most successful advertising campaigns ever developed. Not one person in a thousand has what it takes to make any significant amount of money playing blackjack, but hundreds of thousands of people have given it a try.
Card counting is not difficult for the dedicated practitioner, but few people are dedicated enough, and, as most players discover the hard way, there is more to being a successful card counter than the ability to count cards.
In cynical moments, I see the American public being taken for a ride by the strange bedfellows of the casino industry and the blackjack systems sellers. A tremendous effort is being made to convince people that card counters can get rich quick at the casino blackjack tables.
I don't mean to imply that all blackjack system sellers are trying to bilk the public—I am a system seller. I'm the author of nine books on casino blackjack, and have written operating manuals for two home computer blackjack programs, and articles on card counting for numerous magazines, and I've acted as informal consultant for a number of high-stakes international counting teams. I know the game can be beaten. I have played professionally for many years myself, and I know many full- and part-time card counters who regularly take the tables for piles of money. I know a few players who have made fortunes playing blackjack.
But the successful pros are few and far between. Their dedication to the game is beyond that of the average counter—they live and breathe blackjack. They devour every written word on the subject; they drill and practice until they count cards in their sleep. They know professional blackjack as a dog-eat-dog business.
Some blackjack system authors have been honest about their negative experiences at the blackjack tables. Most publishers, however, aren't so forthright, and the media in general isn't any better. It's not newsworthy to say, "Gambler loses money." Advertisements for blackjack systems promise everything from instant wealth to private airplanes and priced-to-move personal islands.
The average player has no way of knowing that the author of his system objects to the publisher's advertising claims, and sometimes to large portions of the ghostwritten text. In fact, publishers, promoters, and imitators have abused the most respected names in the field of blackjack.
Compound all of this misinformation about card counting with the dozens of books on the market that teach totally inaccurate count strategies, "money management" systems, strategies so weak as to be a complete waste of time or too difficult for anyone to master, and you can begin to fathom why card counting is the best thing that ever happened to the casino industry in this country.
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I am a card counter. I got hooked on blackjack thirty years ago to the point of obsession. I love the game; there's nothing as exciting as beating a casino and walking out the door with more money in your pockets than when you entered. To walk in with the ability to beat the house, knowing the casino will do everything it can to stop you, gives a James Bond, Spy-vs-Spy flavor to the experience. The heart races. The feeling is not unlike that which I recall from my childhood when all the kids in my neighborhood would choose up sides for "cops and robbers." I'd forgotten how much fun it was to hide, sneak, run, hold your breath in anticipation…
Then I discovered card counting. It took me a year of weekend trips to Nevada, some dozen books on card counting, and another half-dozen books on mathematics, to learn that I didn't have enough money to play the game professionally. Prior to the 1980s, many blackjack authors seemed to neglect the risk factor, and didn't provide much guidance on bet-sizing according to bankroll. The counter's edge is small, and the fluctuation of capital is huge. If you don't have enough money, you won't last.
I'll never forget my first trip to Nevada as a card counter. I was driving a car that was 15 years old and over the hill—it guzzled gas and leaked oil. Winding up through the Sierra Nevada Mountains on my way to Lake Tahoe and the casinos of Stateline, I had to stop twice to add a quart of oil and give my overheated wreck a rest. I was with a friend, and we were splitting the cost of the trip. The way we figured it, after paying for gas, oil, motel room and meals, we'd have about $55 left over to play at the $1 blackjack tables.
When I pulled over to the shoulder of the road for my second oil stop, I said to my friend, "It's hard to believe that we're on our way to becoming wealthy. I hope my car makes it up this damn mountain."
"A year from now," my friend responded, "you'll look back on this day and laugh. This is just the beginning."
One year and a dozen trips to Nevada later, I thought back to that first trip and I laughed. I was again on my way to Stateline, this time alone. My car had long since broken down, beyond repair, and I didn't have the money to replace it. I was traveling by bus, and the way I figured it, if I was ahead by twenty-five bucks the first day, I could get a motel room and stay for another day. Otherwise, it was back to the Greyhound station that night. About that time I started to realize I'd been fooling myself into believing I'd get rich easily at this card game.
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