Blackjack Counter
One of the greatest challenges for us is navigating the fine line between painting card counting as “easy money” and making it sound like only Rain Man can do it.
Media has portrayed card counting as something that only rocket scientists and MIT wiz kids can learn.
That’s just not true.
We had former electricians, writers, housewives, and high school dropouts who each won hundreds of thousands of dollars for our blackjack team.
Mastering card counting takes a fraction of the time it would take to become a professional programmer, doctor, or most any other profession. But on the flip side, almost everyone we train underestimates how much practice it takes to be a successful card counter. I remember one guy who was training for our team who vowed, “I’m going to train and test out in two weeks.” He was working towards his Master’s Degree in Marine Biology, had a strong background in math, and was a diligent student. Not only did it take him more than two weeks to test out for our team, it took more than two months. yeah, it’s easier than becoming a professional programmer, but it’s not easy. If you think it’s going to be easy, you’re not going to make it. A lot of people ask me, “what does it really take to be a successful card counter?” I want to give my honest opinion. But rather than talk about the technical skills that we’ve already discussed here, let me talk about the type of person that does well as a card counter.
Atom is a popular card game played in China. Atom is usually played with four people with three packs of cards, including the jokers. The objective of the game is to run out of cards as soon as possible AND get as many points as possible.
Atom is described as easy-to-learn but hard-to-master requiring mathematic and strategic thinking as well...
Blackjack Counter Game - Converting chars into int - C++? | Yahoo Answers
Hello, I've been given an assignment to make a blackjack counter game in C++. The game is a console app where you are first asked how many cards you have, then to define the cards you have. The problem is we've been told to make the numbers chars instead of integers. How would I go about changing the chars...