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Everyone has watched the movies where some card shark playing blackjack takes on the casinoand wins. How easy is it to really count cards, and has blackjack changed enough to stop the practice?

The History of Card Counting

After a math Professor called Edward Oakley Thorp invented card counting, suddenly half the USA seemed to believe they have the powers of Rain Man, a movie in which Dustin Hoffman plays an autistic man, with a great knack for figures and card counting.

Back in the eighties, when the movie was made, card counting was all the rage and still easy to achieve. This, however, was in the day of the single deck blackjack. Tape decks and the single decks however have disappeared and are unlikely to return.

These days there is multi-deck blackjack. If you thought you could count the cards and calculate the odds based on a single deck at the blackjack table, how do you fancy your chances with two decks? About three or more? These days blackjack normally has six or even more decks, and they are usually shuffled regularly.

Available Card Counting Systems

There are plenty of guys online and in bars who will tell you they know a blackjack system.  For those who don’t even want to learn a system, there is software that can count cards on your behalf. But the only people who truly believe in these systems are the ones that are selling it and online casino can now detect when people use card counting software while playing online blackjack.

Rather than complicating matters and running the risk of getting caught, and even worse, banned from your favourite casino, just relax and enjoy the game of Blackjack for what it is. All you should use is skill and luck, unless your name is Rain Man.