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Card counters?
i heard about people called card counters and how its an actual job where people go to casinos and count cards? i dont get what they do. count cards for what? and how do they count them?
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No, counting cards is not counting the number of cards at the casino. Card counting is a skill that a few, like myself, posess. What it is is you see which cards have been played. AKA, if you are playing texas hold'em, and 3 2s are shown, and you have a 2, you know that you have the only 4 of a kind at the table. Yet, it is also can come in games like war, where you memorise that your ace is after a 4-7, and when you see the 4, you are ready for the ace to come. It is illegal at casinos to count cards. A card counter is not a job, it's considered a hobby. I somehow learned how to count cards at a young age, and it is very difficult to explain...
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Hey, card counters count the cards by keeping track of which cards have been played from a deck. They only get to see the cards that are laid face up on the table. By keeping track of those in their heads, they can sort of figure what kind of odds their hand has.
For example, a card counter might see two Ace's in his hand, and hope to draw the other two. But if he kept track (by remembering that a player had laid down a pair of Ace's before), he wouldn't bet too high because he knew that he couldn't get the four Ace's that he wanted.
It's more complex than that, but that's the basic idea.
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They count the cards for the probabilities and to find out how many cards are left in the deck of a certian suit. They do it in games like blackjack so they know what the next card is going to be.
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