Card Counting at Casinos
Casinos hate card counters! In fact, most casinos have strict policies against card counting. Casinos can kick card counters out or even ban them from gambling in their premises. So you take extra care when you count cards at a casino.
The moment the Dealer begins dealing cards, start counting them. Don’t start counting cards once all cards are dealt. Believe you me, you would never like the Dealer or other players spot you counting cards.
Casinos do their level best to shoo card counters away. The following are some of the things that casinos do in order to minimize card counting.
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Upon spotting an experienced card counters, casinos waste no time in kicking them out.
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Casinos sometimes alter the rules regarding doubling down and splitting to decrease the advantage that a card counter may have.
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Some casinos don’t allow playing multiple hands.
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Some casinos use multiple decks instead of a single deck to make card counting difficult.
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Dealers chat with a suspected card counter to distract the attention.
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The “Eye in the Sky”, a name given to surveillance cameras, keeps a watch over suspected card counters. The moment the Dealer asks a player to leave the table, the security arrives in no time and escorts the player out of the building.
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Casinos today are equipped with more advanced and sensitive equipments than ever. Beside the “Eye in the Sky,” casinos use solid-state instruments that can warn the Dealer if a deck or shoe needs reshuffling.
However, casinos don’t kick all card counters out. Casinos leave it up to the Dealers to decide which card counter is a potential threat to the casino. Any casino would love to retain inefficient card counters, because they help casinos win by counting wrong cards and losing hands!
When you play online, the card counting may not prove very useful. The reason lies in the number of players at an online Blackjack table. Usually, you are the only one at an online Blackjack table and you play against the Dealer. At most you can see three cards on the table at the first go. That is not good enough to give you an idea of the remaining high/low cards in the deck.