Blackjack

Once Upon a Time long long ago in a magical mythical place called Las Vegas Nevada it seemed like a great idea to make Blackjack a career choice. There's only one problem the game is fairly difficult to master. It can't be a matter of brain cells, what makes it difficult is partly that you have to do it without them knowing, the casinos that is. It doesn't happen often, but if they really figure out your Counting they walk you out and say please don't come back here to play Blackjack anyway. Then there's the matter of keeping track of all the information necessary the play effectively. You count forward and you have to keep track of several different types of cards. And there's different levels of play, in other words you can play very simple where you just basically keep track of aces then you can build up to tens, then you can build up to other cards especially the 5 card. That's just for starters. you can also keep track of the cards where you count Aces and fives as 2 and other cards as one and you also have to have negative and positive numbers. once again this is basically just the beginning. Mechanics of it don't sound that difficult and with some sort of computer device it would be pretty simple and people get thrown out sometimes for trying to use some kind of little device. Well sometimes anyway they get thrown out. Another approach is to play in teams. This is probably more popular. one person counts and basically really doesn't try to play the game. they basically just sit there and watch the cards carefully and keep track of the count. then they wait until it's a really good opportunity and they do some kind of signal. The other people on the team aren't counting they're just watching for the signal when they get the signal under some sort of strategy they bet a bunch more money. Since they aren't Counting their play looks static. That means they always play the cards the same way. When you're counting part of the game is to play the cards differently depending on the count. when you're playing on teams it seems unlikely you would be able to play cards differently because most of the people aren't Counting. So they watch for the signal and basically bet a bunch of money.  it looks fairly natural as people do this all the time. sometimes you just kind of get an itch and you bet a bunch of money.  every job has some aspect of trying to outsmart the boss a little bit but this is different the casino doesn't want you to count. and the better you get the more they don't like you. doesn't sound like a great career choice. there is one otherthing, there's the emotional aspect of betting a bunch of money and feeling weird about it. Say the count gets really good that means there's a bunch of tens and aces in there and some of the bad cards are gone it's time to bet as much money as you can and so according to your strategy you carefully bet more and more money. so in the best-case scenario let's say your betting a $10 starting bet. then your maximum bet might be to play 4 Hands and 8 units on each hand. this would be 10 * 32 which suddenly turns into $320. then let's just imagine that you get 4 blackjacks and the dealer has a two up card. what that means is you just won a ton of money on one hand. and it seems like a pretty big coincidence to the house that you got a whole bunch of black jacks while betting your maximum amount. but if you do it right it looks natural.  oh and one last thing. you're going to lose more hands than you win. but you're going to win more of the hands when you bet a lot of money. so that's how you make money. notice you don't win all of the hands when you're betting a bunch of money. Just more of them. so not only is it sort of difficult to see if you really are winning sometimes, but on an ongoing basis you're losing more hands. sometimes you're sitting there and it feels like you're just giving your money to the casino. the count is really bad and you're just sitting there betting hand after hand and you're losing hand after hand. I mean even if you're betting $10 hands after 50 hands you may be down 400 bucks. Then on a rare occasion you'll win 320 bucks on one hand.