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    Card counting is a blackjack strategy used to determine whether the player or the dealer has an advantage on the next hand. Card counters are advantage...
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    Blackjack (redirect from Five card charlie)
    blackjack game itself. Nonetheless, side bets can be susceptible to card counting. A side count designed specifically for a particular side bet can improve the...
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  • blackjack card-counting expert, teacher, and entrepreneur. He was a founder and manager of The Church Team, a successful blackjack card-counting team based...
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    the tie at 9-to-1, resulting in a house edge of approximately 4.85%. Card counting can be employed to reduce the house edge by about 0.05%. If paired with...
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  • Technology, Harvard University, and other leading colleges; they used card counting techniques and more sophisticated strategies to beat casinos at blackjack...
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    chance of dealer cheating. In some games, such as blackjack (where card counting is a possibility), using multiple decks of cards can increase the house...
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    Hearts is an "evasion-type" trick-taking playing card game for four players, although most variations can accommodate between three and six players. It...
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  • Edward O. Thorp (redirect from Thorp count)
    mathematically proved that the house advantage in blackjack could be overcome by card counting. He also developed and applied effective hedge fund techniques in the...
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  • film: "21 is about six MIT students who become trained to be experts in card counting in Black Jack and subsequently took Las Vegas casinos for millions in...
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  • Look up holy roller in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Holy Roller or Holy Jumper are terms originating in the 19th century and used to refer to some...
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  • card counting strategies developed with Julian Braun, which were detailed in Playing Blackjack as a Business:[citation needed] The Revere Point Count...
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    discovered immediately by counting the cards after they are dealt, or it may be discovered during play of a hand. If a single card is misdealt and discovered...
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  • The Church Team was a card counting blackjack team that operated from 2005 to 2011. It was started and managed by Ben Crawford and Colin Jones. Over the...
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    advantage from optimal play (without the use of advanced techniques such as card counting), on the first hand of the shoe (the container that holds the cards)...
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    queen of clubs is the highest card. As a result, opponents 2 and 3 both took advantage of the situation and put high-counting cards down. Also note that...
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  • he gained widespread notoriety for perfecting techniques to do team card counting in numerous casinos worldwide, earning millions of dollars from the...
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    jeton. Card with a point value. Also counting card. counting card A card that has an intrinsic scoring value when taken in a trick. Also counter. count out...
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    developed in the United States from Euchre. Euchre was extended to a 10 card game with bidding and a Misère contract similar to Russian Preference, producing...
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  • gain per unit amount wagered. Common betting systems include: Card games – Card counting Sports – Handicapping Martingale Kelly criterion Split martingale...
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  • (Russell) at the Shawmut Diner, where they attempt to convince him to stop card counting. Charlie goes to a Portuguese restaurant with Daniel and Lois, and becomes...
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  • giving the same ranking to more than one candidate. A standard punched-card counting machine would tabulate ballots at a rate of 400 per minute. Lever machines...
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  • include pastposting and card marking. Other episodes include famous examples of legal money-making techniques such as card counting. Some episodes are about...
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  • This new team was the most profitable yet. Personality conflicts and card counting deterrent efforts at the casinos eventually ended this incarnation of...
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    method is counting in threes with low cards. A player gathers the cards won in tricks and groups them into triplets each comprising one counting card and two...
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    a trick-taking ace–ten card game, typically for two to four players and played with a 48-card deck. It is derived from the card game bezique; players score...
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  • for his early forays into card counting in Blackjack in the early sixties, as he financed Edward O. Thorp's card-counting efforts. He was called "Mr...
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  • Counting cards may refer to: Card counting, the process of counting the cards in gambling games Counting card (cards), those cards which have an intrinsic...
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  • are not cheating. Card counting, for example, is a legitimate advantage play strategy that can be employed in blackjack and other card games. In almost...
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  • reveals the history and development of card counting. Director David Layton interviewed current and former card counters, including members of the MIT...
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    "essentially hearts with the addition of the queen of spades as a minus card, counting thirteen" and goes on to say that "black lady and its elaborations have...
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