So you want to tackle the online blackjack games do you, its funny but I get asked alot if playing online blackjack is a waste of time simply because you cannot card count. I dont think that they are a waste of time at all for numerous reasons. Firstly they have the same strategic purpose as online poker has. If a player wanted to play in a live casino cash game or tournament and had never played poker before in their entire life then playing online first may be a viable alternative if only to learn the rules and procedures.
It is no different with Blackjack and playing a few hundred hands online after learning basic strategy can give you some much needed experience before you try it out in a live casino for real.
Also it may be possible for you to take advantage of online sign up bonuses and reload bonuses as well so it may even be possible for you to make a little dough playing online blackjack. There are also all kinds of other bonuses that are not available when you play live so it may serve your interests to check this out.
But I would advise anyone to get their BJ education first and part of my Casino blog will be to educate people in the art of BJ over the coming months. In fact I am going to start to have a structure with my blog where I talk about theory one day, then news, then my past history and then I may even divulge some really juicy stuff so keep an eye open for that.
I started out card counting while I was a croupier and that allowed me to become extremely fast and versatile when I counted. The technique with counting is to use cancellation methods to scan an entire table rapidly. So for example if the dealer dealt five hands to five players and the cards were 9,8….A,5…….10,10……3,2……K4 then if I was using the simple high/low then I could scan this and get a total running count of zero very rapidly. The first box with the 9 and the 8 are both counted as zero cards. The next box with the ace and the five are -1 and +1 so that box cancels out to zero.
The two tens on box three are -2 but they get cancelled out by the two low cards on box four which are +2. Then the final box has one high card and one low card whch cancel each other out so the total is ZERO!!!! Thats how to scan rounds of cards very quickly……now go and work on it with an actual deck.
see you soon
Carl “The Dean” Sampson
