Card Counting: Is there another way?

By now, hopefully, you have downloaded and installed my Free Trial Download of BLACKJACK: The Complete Strategy. Earlier, I urged you to download this software to use as a FREE guide to help you learn all of the Rules of Blackjack and also complete Basic Strategy. If you haven't downloaded and installed it, I suggest you do so now. After all, it's free.

BLACKJACK: The Complete Strategy is a new e-Book written by myself that teaches a simple but highly effective way to incorporate Card Counting into your overall Blackjack strategy. As I mention above, it has complete sections on the rules of Blackjack and Basic Strategy complete with printable strategy charts in several popular formats (WordPerfect, Word, PDF). It also includes a handy Blackjack Player's Journal to track your progress at the Casino. Best of all, the above is totally free.

In addition to these free sections, BLACKJACK: The Complete Strategy has a detailed exposition of a very simple and easy to learn Card Counting System as well as chapters on Money Management and Progressive Betting. When you combine these strategies with Basic Strategy, this completely integrated playing system boasts a 97% betting correlation and 51% efficiency. This means that the count is 97% accurate when it tells you to raise your bet and it is 51% accurate when it tells you to stray from Basic Strategy. If you learn and use this system, you will have as much as a 2% advantage over the Casino. Imagine that, you can actually have an edge over the casino.


You can actually utilize card counting on a more casual basis without actually keeping a running card count. To do this, simply keep your eyes open as the cards are dealt noting when an unusually high number of 10-value cards have been dealt or when an unusually high number of little cards (2, 3, 4, 5 and 6) have been dealt. When there has been an unusually high number of small cards dealt, the deck is relatively favourable and you should increase your bets accordingly. When an unusually high number of 10-value cards has been dealt, the deck is relatively unfavourable and you should decrease the amounts of your wagers. The key in using the Lazy Man's Guide is to look for extreme situations. If you notice that during the past 3 hands, 60 percent of the cards have been 10-value cards, you know the deck is depleted of these favourable cards and you should lower your bet.