What it takes to be an Advantage Blackjack Player: Part I

If you’re looking to make something serious of your blackjack game, you may be interested in becoming an Advantage Blackjack player. This type of game is not very easy though and for those who wish to take it seriously, a lot of work has to be done in order to master a good strategy.

As most know, a Casino’s House Advantage is always very high in any casino gambling game and this includes Blackjack. There are, however, those players that step up against the house with strategies that will lower the house’s edge and increase their own. The most common of these strategies is card counting and the player that can dominate this strategy is called an Advantage Blackjack player because they switch the advantage odds to favor themselves.

Traditional card counting is a very technical strategy that takes a lot of skill and discipline to master. Being able to keep track of a shoe of cards holding six, seven, eight deck of cards, sometimes even more, is something a person needs a keen mind for in order to succeed. These hard system players still know, however, that no matter how much skill a person can have, Lady Luck is not always on their side and rough times will come. The fact that they know this keeps them in control and prepared for the storm and enables them to ride it out. They know that if they hold themselves to their system, in the long run, they will come out on top. This makes them responsible gamblers that are prepared for every type of circumstance.

But, like everything that exists, the hard system has a similar “easy” system that mimics its tactics to give the player the upper hand without having to spend all the amount of time a regular advantage player would spend learning an elaborate card tracking system. These so called EZ systems instead offer something that can be taught and learned in a few hours. These EZ systems base their technique on the same card counting principle but focus only on the key cards of the game. Since the rest of the batch is not considered the system becomes significantly easier to master. This system can be a double edged sword, however, for the player that wishes to dominate it because it tricks people into thinking they are now as good as the semi-pros and that is just not so. Although this system does increase the player’s advantage it will never be as good as the harder system that works more in the long run than the easy system does. Also, the EZ system fools people into thinking they can now start winning the fortunes and lead them to make foolish bets that would have otherwise not been made and therefore makes for irresponsible gambling if the person is not well prepared.

What it takes to be an Advantage Blackjack Player: Part II