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How to cheat at blackjack
Sunday, July 13, 2008, 12:22 PM
Did you read my review of 21? Do you know you can cheat at Blackjack? Want to know how to cheat at Blackjack? There is an official website just to teach you how to do so and the person who is teaching is none other than Jeff Ma, who led the famous MIT team to Vegas to bring down the house as seen in the movie 21 and won as a team. Don't believe me? Read on.There is a website created to feature one video weekly on Jeff Ma, Blackjack and how to cheat at it. It's not that i am trying to promote gambling here but it's always interesting to find out more. :D.
Jeff Ma used to give lessons on Card Counting and Black Jack Seminars but not anymore. Anyhow, this website still gives you an insight into cheating at Blackjack. The basis for cheating at Blackjack is actually the probability of High Cards(10,J,Q,K,A) or Low Cards(2,3,4,5,6) that will be drawn. When you see a high card, you -1 to the card count and when there's a low card, you add one to the card count. There are of course neutral cards(7,8,9) which are assigned a value of 0. Card counting is basically a lot of memory work and math. When the card count is high, it means the deck is hot because it would mean that there are a lot of low cards that had been dealt out and the likelihood of you getting high cards are higher and vice versa. When the card count is high, it is in favour of the players while if it is low, it is in favour of the dealer.
To cheat at Blackjack, you would probably need a few teammates and of course the Gorilla players. Gorilla players are the people who are signalled to go into the table to place big bets by their teammates who have been keeping track of the card count at the tables in the casino. The teammates usually signal the gorilla player into the table through hand actions such as placing both hands behind the chair or raising your arms etc. There are also usually code words to signal the card count at a particular table. You can devise your own. For the MIT team, Cheque=+21, Sweet=+16, Egg=+12.
To decide what you should do when given a certain card combination against the dealer's one, there is actually a table that you can memorise to decide if you should Stay, Hit, Double Down or Split. The last step to gambling or cheating would be how much you should bet. There is actually a formula too to decide how much you should bet. To decide how much you should bet, you need to divide your running count by the number of decks left(they usually have more than 1 decks at the table in casinos) which gives you your true count. You then have to subtract your true count by the offset(Gambler disadvantage determined by the House) then multiply what you get by your betting unit(the dollar value of your minimum bet) There you go.
To find out more, you can go to this website:
http://www.doubleplaytv.com/jeffma/
The MIT team actually has a website where you can find out more information if you want private mentoring sessions or seminars on Blackjack. Seminars can cost up to about $900 while private mentoring sessions go as high as $7000(But just think about how much you can earn). If you prefer to learn on your own, there are also box sets(~$135) and manuals($60) that you can purchase on the website. There are also Blackjack supplies you can buy such as the deck holder, felt and the cards of course.
The website for purchasing these is:
http://www.blackjackinstitute.com/store/index.php
Labels: Blackjack, Card, Cheating, Counting