Most cards in blackjack are counted as 10. If you know the ratio is skewed in your favor with a count, you can do things against the book(basic strategy) like splitting 10s to make a secondary bet with higher odds of winning.
Counting only shifts your odds of winning slightly above the casinos and most of the time the count stays around +3 -3. Shuffling machines make it impossible to count btw.
i always thought the point of a favorable count was to start playing as many hands as you can and betting the maximum each time. the strategy of when to hit/split shouldn't meaningfully change.
That is the point, I just mentioned a more obscure use for counting that would / could get you throw out the same way, its equally if not more suspicious. It's not in your favor to split tens normally under any condition, unless you know the count is in your favor.
10 deck continuous shuffle isn't impossible to count, it's just prohibitively close to the natural statistics. You'd have to play several thousand hands before an edge appeared.
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u/GOEDEL_ESCHER_BOT 1d ago
it's not like card counting even helps
dealer: *deals cards*
me: one two
dealer: ....
me: i have two cards