he just doubled a 9 against a 10.
i'm colin i'm louden we're a couple professional card counters and we're going to be reacting to
the movie the card counter it was in prison i learned to count cards
that was the whole training process what separates blackjack from other games
is that it's based on dependent events meaning past affects the probability in the future
the house has a 1.5 percent advantage what so he just said the house has a 1.5 percent
advantage there is no blackjack game that any reasonable card counter would play with a 1.5
advantage at least if you're counting cards at it the average game that a card counter would
play is maybe half a percent advantage you're not going to beat a casino blackjack game with a 1.5
advantage with card counting to do this he has to keep track of every card that has played
okay he just said he has to keep track of every card that's played not exactly card card is not
keeping track of every card that's played they're keeping a count of the values of the kinds of
cards they've been played maybe it's a nuance but still it's a little different you keep track by
knowing which cards you don't need to keep track of yeah basically count is based on a high-low
system high cards 10 jack queen king have a value of minus one this is the world's slowest dealer
depleted player's advantage goes down nine over four and a half gives you a true count of plus two
as true count increases the player's advantage increases
wait a d i think he just doubled a nine against a ten did i see that right
nine over four and a half gives you a true count of plus two as true count increases the players
he just doubled a nine against the ten okay so at what count would you do that he's explaining card
counting but there's something more fundamental that car carrying is based upon which is called
basic strategy it is the proper way to play the game if you don't know how to play the
game properly no amount of card counting is going to work for you and he just pulled a move no card
counter would ever do doubling a nine against a dealer's 10. how often have you done that uh never
yeah zero to never like who consulted with this movie because that is such an egregious mistake
he says the point is to bet little when you don't have the advantage well when you're doubling a
nine against a 10 you definitely don't have an advantage he should have bet very little on that
going from the casino to the super six that feels about right yeah many a night so that
actually feels accurate because uh card counters while we might have an advantage we're not
spending all of the money we made on these luxurious hotel rooms maybe you get a comp
room from a casino otherwise yeah uh i think we've shared a super six or whatever that was
before yeah you're just trying to keep uh expenses down while you're working so you don't want to
blow all of your money on high priced rooms i've watched you play you count cards right
i'm not that smart but you win so you count cards how do you avoid getting backed off
i've been back there she says but you win so you count cards okay uh how often do you win uh
55 of the time yeah that's definitely a misnomer about card gang is that you count cards you always
win well you know what there are gamblers that sometimes win the the reality is gamblers are
going to lose more often than they win but they have winning days card cameras have losing days we
have plenty of losing days we're going to win more money than we lose but you don't as a card counter
win every time uh but that'd be nice how do you avoid getting backed off i've been back there
he said that he had been backed off as if that was like the the worst the worst it's gotten you know
hey i haven't experienced a back off just so you know i have experienced 100 back offs
how many backups have you experienced probably twice as many 400 at least yeah
yeah well it's a matter of degree the house doesn't mind players who count cards
they don't even mind players who count cards and win so he says
casinos don't mind if you count cards and win uh i would beg to differ we have made a combined
over 1.5 million dollars counting cards the casinos have minded every step along the way
they put effort into keeping us from winning they only want losers at casinos unfortunately
what they don't like are players who count cards and win big it's about how
much you win and how you win it i stick to modest goals the first time i came to vegas
within eight hours i was down forty thousand dollars and had been thrown out of all mgm
properties they said you're not welcome at any of our properties they they didn't say we don't
want you because you're winning big they didn't say hey you're losing keep playing no they knew
that i was playing with an advantage and they did not want any part of it sometimes it's the
big win that gets you kicked out sometimes it's a big loss that gets you kicked out yeah all the
casinos looking at is do you know how to play well and if the if you do they don't want you
he is saying he's able to get away with what he does because he he keeps his wins modest like
he he he just wins a certain amount and then he walks away people think that karkhang it's like
using a casino like an atm you just show up you play a little bit you make a little money but
don't get greedy just make a little bit of money and walk away that's not how card kang works it's
much more like investing you're winning and you're losing you follow the system day in day out lots
of times casinos don't like it but you don't just say oh let me just make a couple hundred bucks a
day and then move on to the next place but the exception is when you double a nine against a
dealer's tent yeah let me lose a couple hundred bucks a day and then move on to the next place
ooh atlantic city it looks nice from a million feet away yeah if i hadn't
been there i'd say this looks like a place i'd want to visit six up he hits a 14 against a six
ouch i tell you they didn't even need to consult with a card counter
to get this movie right they just need to consult with a basic strategy chart which
they'll sell at the casino gift shop you can find it online a million places for free
and they couldn't get that right he hits a 14 it gets to six
what'd you see blackjack pays six to five oh okay so this guy is playing it makes sense
when he said that the casino has a one and a half percent edge because this guy's playing
a rule set if you see on our blackjack table blackjacks pay three to two
all traditional blackjack blackjacks pay three to two there's this inferior version of blackjack
that's popping up at low limit tables around the country where blackjacks pay six to five no card
counter would sit down and play a table this guy's playing at it doesn't know basic strategy
the count doesn't drop and he walks away from the table he's hitting against a six with a 14. yeah
terrible decisions and then even though the count doesn't drop he walks away andy tips like half a
bet just walking away like here here i want to see the tip no wonder the casinos aren't packing him
off the way this guy's betting he's losing about 75 bucks an hour and then he's tipping the dealer
25 bucks so he's costing himself 100 bucks an hour not really a card counter who is their card
counting consultant for this movie i thought with a movie called the card counter it might have some
things that were a little like overly dramatic or not very accurate for card tank this is
like it couldn't be much more wrong than this they just made a wild guess at what card counting might
look like i've heard good reviews of you know the acting and that stuff i don't i don't know
we're just watching the card counting scenes and it sounds like if there was a movie you know said
hey you check out this movie about basketball called airbud he mentions that you have to bet
small win the casino has the advantage bet big when you have the advantage never saw him that
big never saw him change his bets just saw him make really bad playing decisions and
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