I had a college roommate that was a professional card counter.
He “Worked” his way through college going to Vegas twice a semester. I asked him about it and he said card counting isn’t illegal and that as long as he didn’t abuse the knowledge the casinos didn’t care. He said there were 4 rules.
Would you mind sharing idea of what years he was able to do this? I contemplated learning how to count cards but read the casinos added a few more decks to the shoe to thwart this.
A little insider info. It’s not just counting cards, it’s more about noticing a pattern. How many face cards vs how many non face cards are played and when. Takes time to notice, but each deck has a pattern. Watch a few games looking for this and you will see.
” Would you mind sharing idea of what years he was able to do this? I contemplated learning how to count cards but read the casinos added a few more decks to the shoe to thwart this.”
This was in the late 1970’s early 1980’s.
He also said adding decks didn’t matter as much as you’d think because the ratio of cards remained the same. I am not a math guy.
Also he didn’t just play Black Jack He’d play poker which is, I think, always with one deck of cards