These will help you in a lot of different business ideas, not just card counting. Be ready to put in the time, be able to run the numbers and organize. Great video Colin.
I always had problems with a tactic used by a casino here in Ohio. There was a blackjack dealer, a woman, that would scream at the top of her lungs if someone at her table got a blackjack. It had the effect of completely disrupting my train of thought. Sometimes i would even forget the running count. Even though they had favorable rules, dealer peek, S17, LS, DAS, resplit to four hands, no resplitting aces, etc, i always had trouble making money with her in the casino. I learned to just avoid her.
It'll be exciting to turn 21 and get going. I've got basic memorized, variations memorized, and have 1 deck counted down in 16 seconds. And I still have over a year to work! Now let's hope the blackjack scene doesn't go to total crap in 1 year.
@@faith_alone Maybe, but with all the games here you'd think there would be some good ones. I heard from a Gaming Authority official that years ago a casino out in Mesquite applied to have a 3-1 pay out on BJs. At first he felt it would be great for the players, but the commission decided not to allow it because they thought all other casinos in the state would do it and it would cut into the taxes from those games. I disagree, I think it would get more people playing them and pump up the volume on the house take and the taxes. The true odds of getting a BJ are about 9 or 10 to 1 anyway, so the house still has a big edge.
@@liveconcerts7550 The hold you mention is proof positive that you need to play a perfect game. I'm not complaining. The higher their hold, the bigger the money pool is to win from.
Just got into card counting and I started in an online casino I double my money but I know it was more luck than skill so I am still sharpening my skills to start at a real casino thank you for the good educational videos
In the beat the dealer era of Blackjack they had a lot more casinos and table games... It was best to learn on a dollar game of blackjack.. so you'll be under a lot less stress while acclimated to the casino environment!
The three skills: perfect skills including perfect game, perfect basic strategy, perfect card counting, perfect betting, picking the best games, ability to get hours in, time in the casino, and bankroll management.
Speaking of bankroll management, any good tutorial videos on CVCX? Have the software, played with it a little, but confused about how to properly input wonging, how to input my deck estimation rounding technique (always round down), and how to properly input time away from table during wonging sessions... any help is greatly appreciated!
Also Colin, any advice on how to know I’m ready? Is your virtual test out for members only? It’d be great if your services were more a’ la carte and I could pick and choose to use the test out, or the bankroll management app without the video course or drills... (I do have your phone app however and use it for quick prep sessions)... as of right now I’d say I fit in to the category where I’m close, but not good enough for the casino for the long haul... but would really like to have a better gauge... (also use CVBJ and perform well)... once again, any advice HIGHLY recommended!
I have a CVCX tutorial video in our Membership Video Course. Sorry, but I'm not really interested in a la carte... I'm interested in people committed to the community. Splitting up all of our products isn't something I'm really interested in. But for what it's worth, there's probably more value in there than you're realizing (Podcasts, Forum, betting software, all our drills, videos, etc).
I don't have any interest in being a professional card counter by any means. I don't live in a state where gambling is legal. But I do enjoy going to play black jack when on vacation and these videos helped me win $120 on my last cruise! may not seem like much but when you are playing just for fun its awesome.
I was counting cards doing phenomenal at the casino I was winning and winning..... And then all of a sudden I begin to lose tremendously and rapidly... It did not make any sense.... A later was told that the dealer was stacking the deck. So keep in eye on that. Cuz that simple thing was catastrophic. She was picking up the played cards off the table Strategically after every hand.
In one casino I got backed off before buying into the blackjack table because the pitboss recognized me from my a previous time. I played a different game for low stakes because I had promo chips and free concert that night. I went home after the concert and after I had used up my promo chips.
I think they might slowly continue to grow at low limit tables, but pretty unlikely to take over other tables. No time like the current to get into it!
There are Strategies that can be employed for CSM: learn TARGET & TARGET Plus by Jerry Patterson. "Break The Dealer" by Jerry Patterson is available on Amazon. UCP (Ultimate Confirmation Process) by John Taoromino will also assist you in table selection and departure. "New Blackjack", "World Class Blackjack" & "Zero Proximity Betting" by professor Ellis Clifton Davies. Ron DiBennedeto put all of professor Ellis Clifton Davies work nicely together in his book "Precision Blackjack". These will assist you with CSM/shoe games. My blackjack website is www.blackjacksa.com
If the casinos go to CSM's just quit blackjack and maybe try sportsbetting. This field is called Sabremetrics and was used to help the 1976 Oakland A's win the World Series that year. Nobody really "knows" the odds in sports betting. But then you're in there with the rest of the schmucks who think they have a system. Good luck. Med school or engineering or physics is a better bet if you are "at" that level. The only other possibility is that someone detects a pattern in the CSM's and figures out a practical way to determine this in the field. Not likely. You're back to using a large fortune to make a small forturne. However, doing this online has possibilities because it is possible to use a computer to help ferret out patterns when playing online. Winning a Nobel Prize is not much harder. One could also use fast algorithms to determine the next card dealt in a so-called random shuffle. But at present this is an unsolved problem. If you have three hands before the deck is reshuffled, then on average you will see seven cards before action begins. If you could come up with an algorithm to predict the next card after seeing the first seven cards in a robogame pseudo-random shuffle, you could easily beat online robodealer of blackjack or any other game for that matter. That would include bonus bets as well. You would be master of the universe. That is because only G-d can make a random shuffle. All computer shuffles, as done in Monte Carlo simulation, are based on only two numbers, the offset and the modulus. In priniciple they are deterministic, not random.
No matter how good you think you are it's a different story when you get on the scene of a moving table in LV, AC, or other Casinos. You can psych your own self out if you bet more than accustomed or due to the stresses found within Casinos. Lights/Noise can mess w/ ones mind & if you get rattled or shaken up for any reason it's always best to stop betting until things are more in your favor. Expecting unreasonable wins of money beats more people or I should say.... you beat yourself thru bad decisions so have discipline when you gamble. The young guy example fits this perfectly for what not to do. IF you win $20-$30k you have a new problem....lol, getting it out of the Casino? If you cash out the whole amount you'll pay the IRS right there & it'll be upwards of 55% but if you plan to move $9,900 a few times you pay none. You need to think about it & Get the Money Out.... then form a new bank & play more because they'll have Comped you a meal & a room to keep you there. Do it right. peace
Been practicing a lot. Probably going to have my first counting trip to a casino in a week or two. I was hoping I could maybe get some tips on how you guys leave the table when the count is bad, and then come back for a new shoe? In my practice, I’ve had to “leave the table” multiple times sometimes before my shoe turns out favorable enough for me to stay for the majority of it. Is there Anyway to make all that leaving and coming back look not suspicious? Thank you for these videos Colin!
What is the typical hours required to generally get to the long term. I know there is massive variations, but I am just wondering if it is 100 or more like 500 hours before the math starts to work out.
The casinos are so much better at figuring out what kind of player you are. Have you seen the YT show "Slot Lady?" She would often find one deck games with great penetration, sometimes down to 1/5 of a deck. But she was strictly a basic strategy player and would parlay on wins only, not on the true count which at times would become astronomical. If she played like an advantage player, she would have gotten a much worse cut. RIght up front. If you only get a half deck penetration in one deck Vegas blackjack you won't make much money. If you start parlaying, especially on negative counts, you will give a lot back to the house.
Hi Colin - thank you for the great information! I had a quick question: What are the rules for stopping a session? Do you have win goals and stop loss dollar amounts, table time limits or both? Thanks!
I am a student of Jerry Patterson, I use the concept that he taught of 'locked win'. Meaning as you win, you set aside about a third of chips you win. If the game goes south (worse), you walk away with your wins. The next what Jerry Patterson taught to leave the table is game break down. This is well detailed in TARGET FACTORS & improved TARGET PLUS by Jerry Patterson. This is briefly described in his book "Break The Dealer", availble on Amazon. Professor E C Davies (New Blackjack, World Class Blackjack & Zero Proximity Betting) uses game type change to leave the table. There are six game types according to professor Ellis Clifton Davies, you then leave the game according to bad game types. John Taoromino advocates UCP (Ultimate Confirmation Process) to determine if the game is worthwhile to stay or get into. My Blackjack website is www.blackjacksa.com
I disagree with Jerry... that's how a gambler thinks. A card counter ends a session when they either can't play well (tired), the playing conditions have gotten bad (crowded), they are getting too much heat, or you simply want to be done. Every shoe we play is generating EV, so we don't try to "lock in wins" or anything. We simply generate EV until we want to be done generating EV!
@@Blackjackapprenticeship Colin that's your own opinion. I disagree with you too. It's my opinion. I play Blackjack in Las Vegas every year, I am from South Africa. I agree with Jerry Patterson, John Taoromino, professor Ellis Clifton Davies and Ron DiBennedeto's views when to leave the game.
thank you all for your input and advice. I was under the impression that there were specific unit amounts that if lost or earned would mean it's time to end the session.
Game Reserve Big 6 Patterson is an idiot! You play until they put up the closed sign up. Stop losses, it just another way of saying cutting your wins, play until you are tired or conditions get bad.
You need internet connection to load the drills initially. But once it's loaded to your browser, you don't need internet connection again (unless you close the tab).
hi im 18 been playing blackjack for about 2 years i been practicing card counting do you have a list of books that you could recommend that could improve my play thanks
Professional Blackjack by Stanford Wong is a good one. That said, it can be very technical at times. Why not check out blackjackapprenticeship.com ? It's EVERYTHING you need to beat the game.
(1) there are merits to both playing alone with the dealer and playing with other players. it's quite a lengthy discussion but you can sign up for blackjackapprenticeship.com and jump on our member forum for some insight. (2) if you keep losing the count, you need to practice more.
I disagree with the Online Casino part, I've done good money with just waiting for the true count going high the only thing i dont like is that i cant split more than once.
Just listening to you talking about certain things, I don't think you're thinking of this in the right terms, regarding what you call "bankroll management". There are 2 choices.... you can minimize your risk of ruin, which is what I do.... or you can maximize your median outcome. In the first, it doesn't MATTER how much money you have for your decision of the amount of money to bet, the amount you should bet is the same no matter how much or little money is in your bankroll, and your risk of ruin decays exponentially with respect to your bankroll amount, but your expected gains will be linear with the passage of time. In the 2nd, you are following the kelly criterion and betting more and more the more money you have, and you would have risk of ruin decaying in inverse proportion to the money you have, but your expected gains will be exponential with the passage of time. I don't have enough money to justify the 2nd one. But I can tell you that if I DID get my bankroll up to 50k, the probability losing my money at that point would be around 1%. Basically it's like every additional 7500$ you have, halves your risk of ruin, if you play to minimize risk of ruin. And 50% risk of ruin starting from 7500 is bad enough already for me thank you. But there's no "bankroll management", playing to minimize risk of ruin, it's part of the method. For instance, in a 2 deck game with doubling only on 10 and 11 allowed, the breakeven truecount is about 2.5, and the amount I bet will be the minimum bet, which I have to bet, plus 2 to 3* (depending on where the cutcard is, it varies by the dealer) the minimum bet for each 1 the truecount is more than 2.5. There is no part of that which accounts for the actual amount of money I have.... it's an exact formula, because the risk-of-ruin-minimizing bet amount with a bankroll of 10k is the same as with a bankroll of 50k because you're going for linear gains and exponentially decreasing risk of ruin. But my point is, that what you call "bankroll management" is part of the method if done right. The amount I bet is an exact function of the truecount, I'm not sitting there wondering on how daring I want to be, when done correctly, there is a correct AMOUNT of daringness and if you haven't figured out what that amount is, you have some work to do before you have your method truly perfected. When you have your method perfected, it will be boring as hell to play this game, because you will have no freedom at any time, no decisions to make, everything will be decided for you already, and it will not be at the fancy of how daring you feel like being.
If you earn a lot of money you should. Of course you give yourself generous deductions on any of your expenses. You can include transportation and lodging if they are not comped. You can also deduct sofware costs and hardware costs. So you will be unlucky if you pay them one red penney. I don't think you have to report the value of the comps. If one year you have losses, IRS allows you to deduct the losses without auditing. If you get audited, forget it. You're toast.
The legal answer is yes (in the USA, anyway, I believe some countries do not tax gambling winnings as income). The practical answer depends on your ethical views of taxes, your assessment of the risk and consequences of getting caught under-reporting income, and whether you need to be able to document the income for other purposes.
to answer your question, never. 'Beat the Dealer" was published in 1966. We are 53 years on from the invention of card counting yet there are more beatable blackjack games out there than ever before.
ive been doing this for a while and have been playing on the app and using a bet spread and all this and im just losing constantly and im doing everything correct so either im doing something or something if fucking wrong cause im doing the math too
Variance is always at play and the downswings can be brutal, but it's also a good idea to revisit the basics and make sure you're not making mistakes as well. Perfect basic strategy, perfect counting, and a correct bet spread for your bankroll and desired risk of ruin. The app is a great way to practice but it does have some limitations since its about 100x cheaper than our membership and pro betting software. If you have friends who count as well having one of them test you out would a great idea too to see if you can flesh out and mistakes on your end.
Why is this system +1 for low cards and -1 for high cards. Would anything keep me from counting it the other way. I think that's the hardest for me not being able to learn it yet is getting m brain to work against how its logical to count.
this counting system is called Hi-Lo and was created decades ago by mathematicians. some history here: www.blackjackapprenticeship.com/the-history-of-blackjack-and-card-counting/
It's because situations of having a lot of high cards still in the deck is what are positive for the players. Therefore, when a lot of low cards have come out, the count goes into the positive, meaning positive for the player. You could reverse the +/- sign of everything and it would all work the same, but the positive situation for you would then be a negative count if you find that to be more intuitive.
You certainly could reverse the sign, but then you would be making your big bets in negative counts rather than positive. Keep in mind that when you have seen more high cards than low, that means that the cards remaining in the shoe have more low cards than high.
Number 3 is without a doubt, our kryptonite. Around 80% of the population lives paycheck to paycheck. That includes 25% of earners North of $100k a year. People are generally terrible money managers.
you can purchase a membership to Blackjack Apprenticeship, within which you have access to our online forum of advantage players. you could also attend a bootcamp which are held about 3-4 times a year in Las Vegas.
Good for you Dan Black. Professor Ellis Clifton Davies calls Card Counting the greatest scam ever devised. Card Counting worked before casino took measures in 1979 to break it done.
@@dougstyles5091 I loved online poker because of the speed. Live poker, especially if you play tight starting hand requirements (which you generally should if you want to win) can be painfully slow. The online game moved about twice as fast as a live game, and you could play mutiple games at the same time, which meant you could get the same hourly earn at a lower limit, and therefore lower risk of ruin. My first successful venture in advantage gambling was at online poker. This was in 2004 and 2005, when the online games were ridiculously soft. The games got much tougher after that and I ended up losing my bankroll, as I didn't adjust well and didn't drop limits as soon as I should have. I still play some live poker now and then. The nice thing about poker compared to blackjack is that the casinos don't care if you're a winning poker player, because you're not winning their money. They get their rake out of every pot, so you're not impacting their bottom line.
yo thank you so much man turned 300 into 4,500 in two hours and got heat 4 the first time hahaha can't play BJ tables at goodies anymore! went right to hollywood made 2k more!!!
If your not winning in the casino then your iq just isnt good enough. Takes alot of hard work but once u get focused up in there and lock in you could bring home thousands daily and thats what ive been doing in florida 😂💪🏻
Without camouflage a card counter stick out like a sore thumb amongst the stupid blackjack players... if you're under scrutiny it's best to flatbet then leave the table... if you get backed off at the casino that makes you a stupid card counter!
@@Blackjackapprenticeship I play in Colorado (Blackhawk and Central City). I don't think I've seen a CSM for years. For the most part, American players don't trust CSM's, even clueless players, so they never really seemed to gain much traction. Some casinos here used to have one or two tables (usually the tables with the lowest minimum) with CSM's and they would sit empty while people played the tables with shoes. There are still some decent double deck games here, though usually higher minimum bet than the shoes. Penetration varies from excellent to horrible.
yes. well, is $20-$30 per hr in expected value worth it to you? as long as you play as little as possible during negative and neutral counts (casino advantage), and put your $100 bet out when you have the edge, then a $100 top bet can be solid EV. keep in mind this all assumes perfect play and bankroll management.
@@luckyduckimona9787 sure, and have a manager, set hours, a job evaluation, etc. the safety and security of a paycheck has its merits and its detriments. oh, and $20/hr playing blackjack scales up to $50/hr, $100/hr, $200/hr, $400/hr as your bankroll grows.
These will help you in a lot of different business ideas, not just card counting. Be ready to put in the time, be able to run the numbers and organize. Great video Colin.
Thanks man!
I always had problems with a tactic used by a casino here in Ohio. There was a blackjack dealer, a woman, that would scream at the top of her lungs if someone at her table got a blackjack. It had the effect of completely disrupting my train of thought. Sometimes i would even forget the running count. Even though they had favorable rules, dealer peek, S17, LS, DAS, resplit to four hands, no resplitting aces, etc, i always had trouble making money with her in the casino. I learned to just avoid her.
It'll be exciting to turn 21 and get going. I've got basic memorized, variations memorized, and have 1 deck counted down in 16 seconds. And I still have over a year to work!
Now let's hope the blackjack scene doesn't go to total crap in 1 year.
Unlikely... it's changed pretty slowly over the years.
It's crap now. I live in Vegas and it's HARD to find a good game. Hopefully you are in a spot where the games are better.
@@ntnrocket1 Do you maybe think that's because.... you live in Vegas
@@faith_alone Maybe, but with all the games here you'd think there would be some good ones. I heard from a Gaming Authority official that years ago a casino out in Mesquite applied to have a 3-1 pay out on BJs. At first he felt it would be great for the players, but the commission decided not to allow it because they thought all other casinos in the state would do it and it would cut into the taxes from those games. I disagree, I think it would get more people playing them and pump up the volume on the house take and the taxes. The true odds of getting a BJ are about 9 or 10 to 1 anyway, so the house still has a big edge.
@@liveconcerts7550 The hold you mention is proof positive that you need to play a perfect game. I'm not complaining. The higher their hold, the bigger the money pool is to win from.
Just got into card counting and I started in an online casino I double my money but I know it was more luck than skill so I am still sharpening my skills to start at a real casino thank you for the good educational videos
Free Haircuts good luck, homie. Stay in for the long game, not quick riches.
Practice, practice, and practice.
Yep!
In the beat the dealer era of Blackjack they had a lot more casinos and table games...
It was best to learn on a dollar game of blackjack.. so you'll be under a lot less stress while acclimated to the casino environment!
The three skills: perfect skills including perfect game, perfect basic strategy, perfect card counting, perfect betting, picking the best games, ability to get hours in, time in the casino, and bankroll management.
Thanks
Speaking of bankroll management, any good tutorial videos on CVCX? Have the software, played with it a little, but confused about how to properly input wonging, how to input my deck estimation rounding technique (always round down), and how to properly input time away from table during wonging sessions... any help is greatly appreciated!
Also Colin, any advice on how to know I’m ready? Is your virtual test out for members only? It’d be great if your services were more a’ la carte and I could pick and choose to use the test out, or the bankroll management app without the video course or drills... (I do have your phone app however and use it for quick prep sessions)... as of right now I’d say I fit in to the category where I’m close, but not good enough for the casino for the long haul... but would really like to have a better gauge... (also use CVBJ and perform well)... once again, any advice HIGHLY recommended!
I have a CVCX tutorial video in our Membership Video Course. Sorry, but I'm not really interested in a la carte... I'm interested in people committed to the community. Splitting up all of our products isn't something I'm really interested in. But for what it's worth, there's probably more value in there than you're realizing (Podcasts, Forum, betting software, all our drills, videos, etc).
You have the best videos on Blackjack on UA-cam but make more please!
I don't have any interest in being a professional card counter by any means. I don't live in a state where gambling is legal. But I do enjoy going to play black jack when on vacation and these videos helped me win $120 on my last cruise! may not seem like much but when you are playing just for fun its awesome.
I was counting cards doing phenomenal at the casino I was winning and winning..... And then all of a sudden I begin to lose tremendously and rapidly... It did not make any sense.... A later was told that the dealer was stacking the deck. So keep in eye on that. Cuz that simple thing was catastrophic. She was picking up the played cards off the table Strategically after every hand.
Ya, had that in Reno so the count goes up and down but the clump of cards makes it hard to use that count...
In one casino I got backed off before buying into the blackjack table because the pitboss recognized me from my a previous time. I played a different game for low stakes because I had promo chips and free concert that night. I went home after the concert and after I had used up my promo chips.
wait for a few months and go back. or go back on a different shift. you should be fine.
Fantastic video Colin. I’m still waiting to hear from you if you think a danger of most casinos going to CSM’s? Your thoughts?
I think they might slowly continue to grow at low limit tables, but pretty unlikely to take over other tables. No time like the current to get into it!
There are Strategies that can be employed for CSM: learn TARGET & TARGET Plus by Jerry Patterson. "Break The Dealer" by Jerry Patterson is available on Amazon. UCP (Ultimate Confirmation Process) by John Taoromino will also assist you in table selection and departure. "New Blackjack", "World Class Blackjack" & "Zero Proximity Betting" by professor Ellis Clifton Davies. Ron DiBennedeto put all of professor Ellis Clifton Davies work nicely together in his book "Precision Blackjack". These will assist you with CSM/shoe games. My blackjack website is www.blackjacksa.com
If the casinos go to CSM's just quit blackjack and maybe try sportsbetting. This field is called Sabremetrics and was used to help the 1976 Oakland A's win the World Series that year. Nobody really "knows" the odds in sports betting. But then you're in there with the rest of the schmucks who think they have a system. Good luck. Med school or engineering or physics is a better bet if you are "at" that level.
The only other possibility is that someone detects a pattern in the CSM's and figures out a practical way to determine this in the field. Not likely. You're back to using a large fortune to make a small forturne. However, doing this online has possibilities because it is possible to use a computer to help ferret out patterns when playing online. Winning a Nobel Prize is not much harder. One could also use fast algorithms to determine the next card dealt in a so-called random shuffle. But at present this is an unsolved problem. If you have three hands before the deck is reshuffled, then on average you will see seven cards before action begins. If you could come up with an algorithm to predict the next card after seeing the first seven cards in a robogame pseudo-random shuffle, you could easily beat online robodealer of blackjack or any other game for that matter. That would include bonus bets as well. You would be master of the universe. That is because only G-d can make a random shuffle. All computer shuffles, as done in Monte Carlo simulation, are based on only two numbers, the offset and the modulus. In priniciple they are deterministic, not random.
No matter how good you think you are it's a different story when you get on the scene
of a moving table in LV, AC, or other Casinos. You can psych your own self out if you
bet more than accustomed or due to the stresses found within Casinos. Lights/Noise
can mess w/ ones mind & if you get rattled or shaken up for any reason it's always
best to stop betting until things are more in your favor. Expecting unreasonable wins
of money beats more people or I should say.... you beat yourself thru bad decisions
so have discipline when you gamble. The young guy example fits this perfectly for
what not to do. IF you win $20-$30k you have a new problem....lol, getting it out of
the Casino? If you cash out the whole amount you'll pay the IRS right there & it'll
be upwards of 55% but if you plan to move $9,900 a few times you pay none. You
need to think about it & Get the Money Out.... then form a new bank & play more
because they'll have Comped you a meal & a room to keep you there. Do it right.
peace
Been practicing a lot. Probably going to have my first counting trip to a casino in a week or two. I was hoping I could maybe get some tips on how you guys leave the table when the count is bad, and then come back for a new shoe? In my practice, I’ve had to “leave the table” multiple times sometimes before my shoe turns out favorable enough for me to stay for the majority of it. Is there Anyway to make all that leaving and coming back look not suspicious?
Thank you for these videos Colin!
Just look at your phone. Your not allowed to be on your phone so get up and text or call someone. Looks normal.
How much are the average hours to get the long run well done? Thanks.
Just found your Chanel.I wish you had a system to win at the baccarat table
Bet on the Banker, has a very very slight edge of winning over the Player.
Hey Colin I love your vids and have been following for a little bit now, but how is #2 a “life skill?” 😂
What are your thoughts of being a card counter with single deck vs the shoe
Can we also martingale with perfect basic stretegy?
What is the typical hours required to generally get to the long term. I know there is massive variations, but I am just wondering if it is 100 or more like 500 hours before the math starts to work out.
Can you make money as a card counter alone without team?
Yes, but you need a bankroll of at least $5000 unless you just want to play basic strategy and have the discipline to leave after a good streak ends.
I have a video on this! ua-cam.com/video/mQ1PhG431Hc/v-deo.html
Yes, but not like, a lot. I'm up 2000 dollars after 4 years..... but got many many many many free meals.
Is the android app ready Colin?
Awesome video again man!! You should do a video on the theory/law of large numbers and how it ties into card counting etc..
Cool! I'll think about that.
Blackjack Apprenticeship awesome!! Ur the man Colin!!
Okay so in my local casino they literally don’t offer back offs
Where can i download/buy the app, and whats the name of the training app? I cant fint it..
The casinos are so much better at figuring out what kind of player you are. Have you seen the YT show "Slot Lady?" She would often find one deck games with great penetration, sometimes down to 1/5 of a deck. But she was strictly a basic strategy player and would parlay on wins only, not on the true count which at times would become astronomical. If she played like an advantage player, she would have gotten a much worse cut. RIght up front. If you only get a half deck penetration in one deck Vegas blackjack you won't make much money. If you start parlaying, especially on negative counts, you will give a lot back to the house.
Hi Colin - thank you for the great information! I had a quick question: What are the rules for stopping a session? Do you have win goals and stop loss dollar amounts, table time limits or both? Thanks!
I am a student of Jerry Patterson, I use the concept that he taught of 'locked win'. Meaning as you win, you set aside about a third of chips you win. If the game goes south (worse), you walk away with your wins. The next what Jerry Patterson taught to leave the table is game break down. This is well detailed in TARGET FACTORS & improved TARGET PLUS by Jerry Patterson. This is briefly described in his book "Break The Dealer", availble on Amazon. Professor E C Davies (New Blackjack, World Class Blackjack & Zero Proximity Betting) uses game type change to leave the table. There are six game types according to professor Ellis Clifton Davies, you then leave the game according to bad game types. John Taoromino advocates UCP (Ultimate Confirmation Process) to determine if the game is worthwhile to stay or get into. My Blackjack website is www.blackjacksa.com
I disagree with Jerry... that's how a gambler thinks. A card counter ends a session when they either can't play well (tired), the playing conditions have gotten bad (crowded), they are getting too much heat, or you simply want to be done.
Every shoe we play is generating EV, so we don't try to "lock in wins" or anything. We simply generate EV until we want to be done generating EV!
@@Blackjackapprenticeship Colin that's your own opinion. I disagree with you too. It's my opinion. I play Blackjack in Las Vegas every year, I am from South Africa. I agree with Jerry Patterson, John Taoromino, professor Ellis Clifton Davies and Ron DiBennedeto's views when to leave the game.
thank you all for your input and advice. I was under the impression that there were specific unit amounts that if lost or earned would mean it's time to end the session.
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Patterson is an idiot!
You play until they put up the closed sign up. Stop losses, it just another way of saying cutting your wins, play until you are tired or conditions get bad.
Is there a video of basic deviations?
No. Sorry.
does your membership allow for downloading of any of training drills and videos or is it all online?
You need internet connection to load the drills initially. But once it's loaded to your browser, you don't need internet connection again (unless you close the tab).
Is it possible to have a $200 bankroll and profit it up to $60 regularly?
Where can I find the app? Bankroll management is one of the most difficult things for me but I can’t find the app on the apple appstore. Thanks!
It's part of our Membership. Sorry for the confusion.
in the netherlands we have a state casino and that is the only one that exists, do you think they will throw you out?
Maximilian you never know what casinos are going to do.
hi im 18 been playing blackjack for about 2 years i been practicing card counting do you have a list of books that you could recommend that could improve my play thanks
Professional Blackjack by Stanford Wong is a good one. That said, it can be very technical at times. Why not check out blackjackapprenticeship.com ? It's EVERYTHING you need to beat the game.
I just read the writing on the t-shirt that match with what he is talking.......
Colin do you still go play BLACKJACK at casinos?
Do you think it’s better to play alone. And I know Basic strategy but I keep losing the count how can I fix that
(1) there are merits to both playing alone with the dealer and playing with other players. it's quite a lengthy discussion but you can sign up for blackjackapprenticeship.com and jump on our member forum for some insight. (2) if you keep losing the count, you need to practice more.
Yes, practice more. Focus on shutting outside stimuli out of your consciousness without looking too serious
thank u
I disagree with the Online Casino part, I've done good money with just waiting for the true count going high the only thing i dont like is that i cant split more than once.
Don't give me short-term anecdotal results. Tell me where you're at after 500 hours of play.
is it possible to count the number of deck of cards in card counting machine?
In a continuous shuffle machine? You can't count cards at those.
@@Blackjackapprenticeship ok thanks my friend! im from the philippines.
mico mariñas
Sure, just ask the dealer, he will know how many decks in the machine.
Do you have a podcast??
We do, you can listen on our website or find it on Spotify or Apple music as well. www.blackjackapprenticeship.com/blackjack-apprenticeship-podcast/
@@Blackjackapprenticeship awesome will be listening to them ASAP!
While it is not a life skill. Being a free spirit helps.
Any info on the book release?
Yeah, waiting on the publisher, but it's moving along! Hoping for an exact release date from the publisher soon!
best skill is the BANKROLL !
If that's your only skill, bankroll, you will lose it.
Just listening to you talking about certain things, I don't think you're thinking of this in the right terms, regarding what you call "bankroll management". There are 2 choices.... you can minimize your risk of ruin, which is what I do.... or you can maximize your median outcome. In the first, it doesn't MATTER how much money you have for your decision of the amount of money to bet, the amount you should bet is the same no matter how much or little money is in your bankroll, and your risk of ruin decays exponentially with respect to your bankroll amount, but your expected gains will be linear with the passage of time. In the 2nd, you are following the kelly criterion and betting more and more the more money you have, and you would have risk of ruin decaying in inverse proportion to the money you have, but your expected gains will be exponential with the passage of time. I don't have enough money to justify the 2nd one. But I can tell you that if I DID get my bankroll up to 50k, the probability losing my money at that point would be around 1%. Basically it's like every additional 7500$ you have, halves your risk of ruin, if you play to minimize risk of ruin. And 50% risk of ruin starting from 7500 is bad enough already for me thank you. But there's no "bankroll management", playing to minimize risk of ruin, it's part of the method. For instance, in a 2 deck game with doubling only on 10 and 11 allowed, the breakeven truecount is about 2.5, and the amount I bet will be the minimum bet, which I have to bet, plus 2 to 3* (depending on where the cutcard is, it varies by the dealer) the minimum bet for each 1 the truecount is more than 2.5. There is no part of that which accounts for the actual amount of money I have.... it's an exact formula, because the risk-of-ruin-minimizing bet amount with a bankroll of 10k is the same as with a bankroll of 50k because you're going for linear gains and exponentially decreasing risk of ruin. But my point is, that what you call "bankroll management" is part of the method if done right. The amount I bet is an exact function of the truecount, I'm not sitting there wondering on how daring I want to be, when done correctly, there is a correct AMOUNT of daringness and if you haven't figured out what that amount is, you have some work to do before you have your method truly perfected. When you have your method perfected, it will be boring as hell to play this game, because you will have no freedom at any time, no decisions to make, everything will be decided for you already, and it will not be at the fancy of how daring you feel like being.
Hey Colin what is RSA 🤔
Re-split aces. Since splitting a pair of aces is a quite powerful strategy, some casinos would not let you re-split them.
@@GaryLuKOTH thanks fellow AP 😏
Do you need to pay taxes on earnings?
If you earn a lot of money you should. Of course you give yourself generous deductions on any of your expenses. You can include transportation and lodging if they are not comped. You can also deduct sofware costs and hardware costs. So you will be unlucky if you pay them one red penney. I don't think you have to report the value of the comps. If one year you have losses, IRS allows you to deduct the losses without auditing. If you get audited, forget it. You're toast.
The legal answer is yes (in the USA, anyway, I believe some countries do not tax gambling winnings as income). The practical answer depends on your ethical views of taxes, your assessment of the risk and consequences of getting caught under-reporting income, and whether you need to be able to document the income for other purposes.
How long before card counting becomes worthless with game conditions deteriorating at the rate they are?
to answer your question, never. 'Beat the Dealer" was published in 1966. We are 53 years on from the invention of card counting yet there are more beatable blackjack games out there than ever before.
ive been doing this for a while and have been playing on the app and using a bet spread and all this and im just losing constantly and im doing everything correct so either im doing something or something if fucking wrong cause im doing the math too
Variance is always at play and the downswings can be brutal, but it's also a good idea to revisit the basics and make sure you're not making mistakes as well. Perfect basic strategy, perfect counting, and a correct bet spread for your bankroll and desired risk of ruin. The app is a great way to practice but it does have some limitations since its about 100x cheaper than our membership and pro betting software. If you have friends who count as well having one of them test you out would a great idea too to see if you can flesh out and mistakes on your end.
@@Blackjackapprenticeship thank you! I am going to keep trying and keep practicing
Why is this system +1 for low cards and -1 for high cards. Would anything keep me from counting it the other way. I think that's the hardest for me not being able to learn it yet is getting m brain to work against how its logical to count.
this counting system is called Hi-Lo and was created decades ago by mathematicians. some history here: www.blackjackapprenticeship.com/the-history-of-blackjack-and-card-counting/
It's because situations of having a lot of high cards still in the deck is what are positive for the players. Therefore, when a lot of low cards have come out, the count goes into the positive, meaning positive for the player. You could reverse the +/- sign of everything and it would all work the same, but the positive situation for you would then be a negative count if you find that to be more intuitive.
You certainly could reverse the sign, but then you would be making your big bets in negative counts rather than positive. Keep in mind that when you have seen more high cards than low, that means that the cards remaining in the shoe have more low cards than high.
That’s is freaking awesome
Thanks!
Let the side notes stay ON LONGER! ...please
Carlo 5Mc noted. Thank you for the feedback
What does EV mean?
Electric veal
Number 3 is without a doubt, our kryptonite. Around 80% of the population lives paycheck to paycheck. That includes 25% of earners North of $100k a year. People are generally terrible money managers.
Is it possible for the dealer to tip the count down to there favor.?
Kai Padilla no it’s not
Can I use these tips online for video blackjack?
to summarize, no. check this video out ua-cam.com/video/sPvxe40Nr20/v-deo.html
Do you have a test group I can be a part of? I am determined
you can purchase a membership to Blackjack Apprenticeship, within which you have access to our online forum of advantage players. you could also attend a bootcamp which are held about 3-4 times a year in Las Vegas.
Sweet thanks
I want to make it
I gave up on card counting boys and now I’m addicted to poker :)
Good for you Dan Black. Professor Ellis Clifton Davies calls Card Counting the greatest scam ever devised. Card Counting worked before casino took measures in 1979 to break it done.
I like poker as well. I prefer the speed of BJ though.
@@dougstyles5091 I like Blackjack too Doug styles
@@dougstyles5091 I loved online poker because of the speed. Live poker, especially if you play tight starting hand requirements (which you generally should if you want to win) can be painfully slow. The online game moved about twice as fast as a live game, and you could play mutiple games at the same time, which meant you could get the same hourly earn at a lower limit, and therefore lower risk of ruin. My first successful venture in advantage gambling was at online poker. This was in 2004 and 2005, when the online games were ridiculously soft. The games got much tougher after that and I ended up losing my bankroll, as I didn't adjust well and didn't drop limits as soon as I should have. I still play some live poker now and then. The nice thing about poker compared to blackjack is that the casinos don't care if you're a winning poker player, because you're not winning their money. They get their rake out of every pot, so you're not impacting their bottom line.
yo thank you so much man turned 300 into 4,500 in two hours and got heat 4 the first time hahaha can't play BJ tables at goodies anymore! went right to hollywood made 2k more!!!
Did you master card counting? Or were you using basic strategy mostly
If your not winning in the casino then your iq just isnt good enough. Takes alot of hard work but once u get focused up in there and lock in you could bring home thousands daily and thats what ive been doing in florida 😂💪🏻
What does IQ have to do with all of this?
Without camouflage a card counter stick out like a sore thumb amongst the stupid blackjack players... if you're under scrutiny it's best to flatbet then leave the table... if you get backed off at the casino that makes you a stupid card counter!
I stop the whole game and ask the pit to Google "Blackjack Apprenticeship" if I get stuck on a play. 😳
I guess you will hate me I always split my cards.
I don't hate you. Just know that you're costing yourself money.
@@Blackjackapprenticeship
Just wondering how?
for me that how I win at 21!
and it not cost me any more or less money
@@mroie one could only pray you're not as clueless a year later.
@@tact1calbanana388 how that?
What is 1.5 pen? I guess 0.8 pen is 80% penetration but how can you have 1.5?
How l do easy way to card count please
Can you teach me how to beat blackjack
Any shoe games left these days,???????
Yeah, plenty in the US and Canada
@@Blackjackapprenticeship I play in Colorado (Blackhawk and Central City). I don't think I've seen a CSM for years. For the most part, American players don't trust CSM's, even clueless players, so they never really seemed to gain much traction. Some casinos here used to have one or two tables (usually the tables with the lowest minimum) with CSM's and they would sit empty while people played the tables with shoes. There are still some decent double deck games here, though usually higher minimum bet than the shoes. Penetration varies from excellent to horrible.
u cant bit machine shfell cards ?
6 to 5 . . . what a joke ! 💀
Uhgh, too much work,
What is EV?
EV stands for Expected Value
Thanks for the reply BJA👍
Is the game worth beating when your max bet is $100?
No.
yes. well, is $20-$30 per hr in expected value worth it to you? as long as you play as little as possible during negative and neutral counts (casino advantage), and put your $100 bet out when you have the edge, then a $100 top bet can be solid EV. keep in mind this all assumes perfect play and bankroll management.
Gus 45
$20-30 per hrs, lol, maybe if you don't value your time. You may as well be a dealer, make 20-30$, and have no risk!
@@luckyduckimona9787 sure, and have a manager, set hours, a job evaluation, etc. the safety and security of a paycheck has its merits and its detriments. oh, and $20/hr playing blackjack scales up to $50/hr, $100/hr, $200/hr, $400/hr as your bankroll grows.