When he asked the dealer how he did that, he said he was counting 5’s and that “5’s are the most important card in the deck: they make a dealer’s hand from 12 to 16. And if you ever wanted to increase your bet, now is the time.” He said he increased his bet as advised, won the next 5 hands in a row, and then the dealer shuffled. My grandfather once told me he was in a casino playing blackjack and the dealer looked at him and said: “I don’t know if you’ve been counting cards, but I have.
6.4.3 Continuous Shuffling Machines (CSMs)īlackjack is one of the most appealing games to a mathematical gambler because we know that it can be beat with various card-counting techniques.1 Flipping a Coin (and Basic Probabilities).
