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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 try to overcome...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    Shoe (cards) (redirect from Card shoe)
    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    any of several possibilities for the penalty card on the first trick can be implemented, such as not counting that point, or laying it aside and giving it...
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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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  • 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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  • gain per unit amount wagered. Common betting systems include: Card games – Card counting Sports – Handicapping Martingale Kelly criterion Split martingale...
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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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  • consisting of fellow students Choi, Fisher, Jill and Kianna. Using card counting and covert signalling, they increase their probability of winning at...
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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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    to each element. Counting sometimes involves numbers other than one; for example, when counting money, counting out change, "counting by twos" (2, 4, 6...
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  • 2004 English-French-Cantonese-language Canadian drama film about a card counting scheme. The film was produced by Greg Dummett, Lorraine Richard and...
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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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    selects a card and four apparently impossible predictions of their card are made. Scarne also attempted to discredit Edward O. Thorp's card counting system...
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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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  • 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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    "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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  • (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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    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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  • 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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    the $5,000 Seven Card Stud event, winning $110,000. Ungar's prodigy-level IQ and total recall contributed to his blackjack card counting abilities, which...
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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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    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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  • players. Counting measure – Mathematical concept Approximate number system – Innate ability to detect differences in magnitude without counting Gleadow...
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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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