Taj London: Advantage PlayerSunday, December 28, 2008
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Getting started with Andy Bloch
So here I am. It's roughly June 2008 and my friend (ZoLa) and I have watched the movie '21' and decided to give card counting at blackjack a shot. We have some fairly unrealistic expectations and no clue what to do. Counting cards eh?
So where to start? Well, we turned to our good old friend Google and plugged in MIT Blackjack Team and Card Counting, reading dozens of articles about how the MIT Blackjack team had taken Vegas casinos for millions using card counting in teams. Seemed great, but still no clue as to how to count. There were hundreds of sites with tons of information on Basic Strategy and little on how to actually count in teams.
Eventually I got my hands on a copy of "Beating Blackjack with Andy Bloch". Andy Bloch was one of the members of the notorious MIT BlackJack team, and along with Expert Insight had produced an instructional DVD on how to count cards in a team. The DVD had shades of the movie '21', with mock situations of Andy Bloch evading casinos Pit Bosses and rushing loot out of the casino. (Of course, Andy Bloch's DVD was made well before the movie '21' so who copied whom eh?).
ZoLa and I watched the DVD several times. It made the whole thing look exciting and easy. Our favourite bit was where the team wins $80,000 in a single hand right at the end! It was so exciting that we couldn't wait to get started.
The DVD laid out exactly what we needed to do to become card counters.
1. Learn Basic Strategy
2. Learn to Count Cards using the simple Hi-Lo system
3, Assign your team roles and hit the casinos!
We're going to make a lot of money!
Next time: Basic Strategy.
Warning: To anyone reading this blog and thinking about becoming a card counter, please do not follow the instructions laid out in Beating Blackjack with Andy Bloch. It may be entertaining and motivational, but it conveiently glazes over IMPORTANT card counting knowledge such as betting spreads and streaks. If you are interested in becoming a counter there are some much better free resources out there which will give you a more complete picture of counting cards which I will mention in a later blog post.
Continue on to the next post:
http://confessionsofacardcounter.blogspot.com/2008/12/intoduction-to-basic-strategy.html
So where to start? Well, we turned to our good old friend Google and plugged in MIT Blackjack Team and Card Counting, reading dozens of articles about how the MIT Blackjack team had taken Vegas casinos for millions using card counting in teams. Seemed great, but still no clue as to how to count. There were hundreds of sites with tons of information on Basic Strategy and little on how to actually count in teams.
Eventually I got my hands on a copy of "Beating Blackjack with Andy Bloch". Andy Bloch was one of the members of the notorious MIT BlackJack team, and along with Expert Insight had produced an instructional DVD on how to count cards in a team. The DVD had shades of the movie '21', with mock situations of Andy Bloch evading casinos Pit Bosses and rushing loot out of the casino. (Of course, Andy Bloch's DVD was made well before the movie '21' so who copied whom eh?).
ZoLa and I watched the DVD several times. It made the whole thing look exciting and easy. Our favourite bit was where the team wins $80,000 in a single hand right at the end! It was so exciting that we couldn't wait to get started.
The DVD laid out exactly what we needed to do to become card counters.
1. Learn Basic Strategy
2. Learn to Count Cards using the simple Hi-Lo system
3, Assign your team roles and hit the casinos!
We're going to make a lot of money!
Next time: Basic Strategy.
Warning: To anyone reading this blog and thinking about becoming a card counter, please do not follow the instructions laid out in Beating Blackjack with Andy Bloch. It may be entertaining and motivational, but it conveiently glazes over IMPORTANT card counting knowledge such as betting spreads and streaks. If you are interested in becoming a counter there are some much better free resources out there which will give you a more complete picture of counting cards which I will mention in a later blog post.
Continue on to the next post:
http://confessionsofacardcounter.blogspot.com/2008/12/intoduction-to-basic-strategy.html
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