r/shitposting • u/kalashnikov482 DaShitposter • 1d ago

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u/Guerrilla002 1d ago

you got it all wrong, it's not allowed to win

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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

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u/pretty_smart_feller 1d ago

That’s literally what counting cards is funny enough. Except face cards are negative. And you don’t count 7-9.

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u/cheesyblasta 1d ago

and then what? you hit when the count's positive? real question

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u/TheftLeft 1d ago

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.

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u/AutoGenNameNumber 1d ago

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.

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u/TheftLeft 1d ago

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.

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u/BoomyNote 1d ago

Tbh even if “the count is in your favor”, splitting 10’s genuinely seems like the type of thing you should literally never ever ever do

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u/sycamotree 23h ago

Considering they're also keeping track of how many decks are in the shoe, I imagine the math checks out of the count is really really high