All about Card Counting in Blackjack

Like any other casino game, Blackjack too has its own strategies, which, if used, can have great impact on the decisions made by a player in the game. It is a common belief that each and every card in a deck has the same probability of being dealt, but the most popular Blackjack strategy, Card Counting, puts forward a whole new theory.

Card counting is one of the highly-used strategies used by almost every blackjack professional to support their decisions, when it comes to making a ‘Hit’, ‘Stand’, ‘Double’ or Surrender’. Card counting is all about the card that has been discarded or disposed of at the end of a deal. The trick is to keep a mental note of the discarded cards once they leave the shoe deck.

All the cards that are disposed of once used for a deal are kept aside and not used till the deck is re-shuffled again. According to the Card counting strategy, if you can keep a track of the cards that have left the Shoe deck you can make a good estimate of the possible cards left in the game. If you know the approximate proportion of high vale cards or low value cards available in the Shoe deck, it becomes easier for you to decide whether to Hit or Stand at a crucial hand total like 16 or 17. Although, card counting does not secures you decision hundred percent, but it does gives you a vague idea of the possible cards that you might or might not encounter during your game play.

If you know that most of the high cards or all of the high cards been dealt with and that the Shoe deck holds a lower proportion of high cards, then you can always take a chance and Hit for another card, even at a total that is close to big numbers like 18. Since the vague knowledge on the cards present in the Shoe deck is based on your basic counting of the cards that have been dealt, the star6y is widely known as Card Counting.