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The Great Blackjack Myth
In New Jersey, in 1982, representing himself before the state supreme court, the late Ken Uston, renowned author of numerous books on card counting, won a landmark case against the casinos. Today, the fourteen Atlantic City casinos may no longer bar skillful players from their tables. The immediate response of the casinos to this law was to stop dealing a game that card counters could beat. This is, and always has been, a very easy thing for the casinos to do. Converting their 6-deck shoes to 8-deck shoes, the dealers were simply instructed to deal out only four decks between shuffles. Voila! Card counting became a waste of time!
Within a few months, however, the A.C. casinos threw in the towel and reverted to their prior practice of cutting off only two decks. In an unofficial boycott reminiscent of what happened in Nevada eighteen years earlier when some Las Vegas casinos tried to change the rules of the game to thwart Thorp's followers, the players again forced the casinos to loosen up or lose it all.
Never forget that blackjack exists as a beatable game only because the casinos choose to keep it that way. They do not need mechanical shuffle machines, or electronic card readers, or any other high-tech contraptions to eliminate the potential profits that card counters might extract from the tables. A simple change of rules or dealing procedures could make every blackjack game in the world unbeatable by any card counting system, no matter how advanced, in an instant. But the casinos simply cannot afford to let that happen.
To this day, however, the 8-deck shoes still predominate in Atlantic City, making them some of the most difficult blackjack games in the world. Many Nevada casinos, as well as casinos in some two-dozen other states and around the globe, currently offer blackjack games that are unprofitable for card counters, primarily due to the large betting spread necessary to get a small edge. In most cases, casinos protect their games from counters with poor deck penetration. The casinos, naturally, want players to believe that every unbeatable sucker trap, just because it is called "blackjack," is still a game of skill. It is common knowledge among casino executives that hopeful but incompetent and self-deluded card counters, like other "system players," are a major source of income. If card counters actually stopped playing blackjack in the lousy Atlantic City games, the casinos' blackjack profits would nosedive.
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