Blackjack Card Counting

Blackjack card counting is the stuff of legend because skilled players have used this practice to make thousands or even millions of dollars. The MIT Blackjack Team even made a profitable multi-million dollar business out of card counting! Obviously it’s hard to replicate this type of success, but that’s…

Introduction Rather than spend hours creating a long list of all the flaws in the 21 movie, it would be easier to list what has some basis in truth. There was indeed an MIT blackjack team. In 1994, when the events loosely depicted in the movie took place, there was just one team. A second competing…

The Basics Of The Hi-Opt II The foundation of the Hi-Opt II doesn’t differ from other methods of card counting. It revolves around a running count which is used at the table to determine the size of a player’s bet. The higher the count, the higher the bet becomes. That’s where the Hi-Opt II and other…

(Updated, March 27, 6:45 pm—see editor’s note, p. 2) The house was on Inman Street, near Cambridge’s Central Square. Peter Woit recalls the morning he came downstairs and found his roommate obviously upset. “John, what’s wrong?” he asked. “Have you seen a dirty pink laundry bag?” came the response. “No…

Abstract Do you like to play cards? Here s a project that will get you thinking about strategy in card games and help you become a better card player. Objective The objective of this project is to prove the best strategy for playing Hi-Lo using basic probability. Using computer simulations, you can verify…

Tangential story- This was related to me many years ago. As you might be aware the physics departments of MIT and U.C. Berkeley have a lot of cross pollination (now there s a lousy metaphor - sorry). Anyway, it was the late 60 s or perhaps the early 70 s that some Cal physics grad students and others…

Many of you have probably heard the saying, “Cheaters never prosper.” But there are plenty of blackjack players who are willing to test this thought with various blackjack cheating methods. Most blackjack cheats involve slight of hand tricks, and if your hand isn’t slight enough, you can end up in jail…

ASSUMING THE CASINO RULES ALLOW SURRENDER Surrender takes priority over all the other playing decisions, so the first question to ask yourself is should I surrender? You should know by now that the hands you would consider surrendering occur when the dealer’s upcard is either a 9, 10, or A. Therefore…

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By They used math to beat casinos for a living. Their exploits have been immortalized on the silver screen — in films like 21 — and before that between bindings on the best-seller list. Educated at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the MIT Card Counting Team hauled millions of…

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For some successful gamblers, getting ejected for being too good is an occupational hazard. One second, they’re pulling up to a casino in a complimentary luxury car service, and the next second, casino security is hustling them out the back door like some common shoplifter. That is basically what happened…