MYTHS OF BLACKJACK

Now that you know what blackjack is, you should know what Blackjack is not. These myths have clouded the thinking of many potential winning Blackjack players. Each myth will be completely sheltered by the time you master this website.

Myth No. 1 : You need luck in order to win a casino Blackjack
Myth No. 2 : You have to be a mathematical genius in order to learn how to win at Blackjack
Myth No. 3 : You have to have a photographic memory in order to learn to win.
Myth No. 4 : Dealers deal too fast for players to keep track of the cards
Myth No. 5 : It is impossible to win playing against 4 or 6 decks because there are too many cards to keep track of
Myth No. 6 :You need a bankroll of thousands of dollars in order to win appreciable amount of money and blackjack
Myth No. 7 : There is no cheating in large Las Vegas casinos
Myth No. 8 : They only cheat high rollers
Myth No. 9 : Bad players hurt a good player's game
Myth No. 10: The player sitting at third base can have a greater effect whether the dealer busts or not than any other player at the table
Myth No. 11: Casinos used shills in order to cheat players

Myth No. 1: You need luck in order to win a casino Blackjack

This is completely false. Blackjack is the only casino game in which the player can actually get the permanent, a long-term, mathematical advantage over the house using his or her own skill. True, over a few playing sessions, you may win or lose more than your advantage will dictate. But the long term player who knows how to plat will realize exactly the percentage of profit that is associated with whatever strategy the player uses. There is no need to prove this in casino play if you are sceptical.
Learn one of the strategies, then play a few thousand hands at home, keeping track of the results. Or let your computer do the playing. Either way you will show profit after playing this many hands

Myth No. 2 : You have to be a mathematical genius in order to learn how to win at Blackjack

The idea started after mathematics professor Edward O. Thorp published his best-selling book Beat the Dealer in 1962. Thorp did have a very complicated strategy in his book called Ten Count. The press came to the conclusion that only an extremely intelligent person with a mathematical mind could win a blackjack. This is now totally erroneous. His 1996 edition of Beat the Dealer introduced a very simple point-counting system where the players keeps track of large cards and small cards only. Being smart enough to count by 1s up to plus or minus 10 is enough. I've taught a ten year old girl and twelve year old boy, one holiday weekend, to play winning game using the methods from this website. Anyone can learn to win.

Myth No. 3 : You have to have a photographic memory in order to learn to win.

I am often the "absent minded professor." No photographic memory or anything approaching such a memory, is needed. The most difficult part of learning to win is memorizing the basic strategy for playing the various possible hands. And for most people all that's needed is a few hours of memory work.

You are not memorizing the cards as you see them, you are merely counting the cards as they go by. If you can remember a single number then you can track the cards.

Myth No. 4 : Dealers deal too fast for players to keep track of the cards.

While some dealers do deal extremely fast they can never deal faster than you can play. That's because no dealer can deal past you until you give a signal that you wish to stand. Some dealers will try to get you into their rhythm of play by starting slowly than gradually speeding up, but you control the way you play your hand. He can never deal too fast for you to keep track of the cards.

Myth No. 5 : It is impossible to win playing against 4 or 6 decks because there are too many cards to keep track of.

Four or more decks all mixed together do seem formidable to play against. But it is not more complex it only takes longer to keep track of 208 cards compared to 52 cards. it is also somewhat more fatiguing because you don't rest as often. In a single deck game the dealer shuffles up giving you more time to rest. In a game of 4 decks or more shuffling is more infrequent.
The complexity of tracking cards is still the same. There are no different types of cards to track in a multiple deck game, only more cards. You still track the cards with a simple plus 1 or minus 1 count, the same as in a single deck game. If you are worried about maintaining you concentration long enough been a multiple deck game, buy four decks and intermix them. If you practice keeping track of the cards, you counting will quickly become an almost effortless skill.

Myth No 6 :You need a bankroll of thousands of dollars in order to win appreciable amount of money and blackjack.

All you need is a bankroll of $200.00.With such a small start you can win thousands of dollars. Admittedly it will take much longer if you start small because you will only be able to make small bets at first, winning only small amounts of money. But you will win at the same rate as someone betting a thousand dollars per hand.

The more hours you play the more money you will accumulate. Ones you have doubled your bankroll you can bet twice as much on each hand, and so on. After the first 50 hours of playing you will be making bigger bets and you'll be well on your way to winning in four of five figures if you stay with the game. I began with a bankroll exactly $200.00 and have parlayed it up to more than $80,000.00. My former students have won much more.

Myth No 7 : There is no cheating in large Las Vegas casinos

It has been my experience than the larger the casino, the more experts the cheating dealers are. I have been cheated out of thousands and thousands of dollars by dealers in the largest casinos in the world.

Myth No. 8 : They only cheat high rollers

A cheating dealer will cheat anybody he wants to whether that person is betting 50 cents or $500.00. Cheating dealers do not discriminate unless is unless it is in the best interests because it is easier to deal themselves a good hand (hurting everybody) than it is to deal a particular player a bad hand.

Myth No. 9 : Bad players hurt a good player's game

It is been proven mathematically the bad players on the table help a good player as often as they hinder him in actual casino playing. A winning player never blames another player for his losses. Instead a winner thanks the bad player when the latter helps by playing badly.

Myth No. 10 : The player sitting at third base can have a greater effect whether the dealer busts or not than any other player at the table

This only appears to be true because he is the last player to draw and all the other players attention is focused on him. Yet he has no more effect on the dealer than the players elsewhere at the table who hit, double, split or stand. Every single play can change the order of the cards the dealer gets. Therefore it doesn't matter who goes last. What matters in terms of effect on the dealer's hand is how many and what kind of cards (large or small) are draw are drawn by all the players together.

Myth No. 11 : Casinos used shills in order to cheat players

Although the casino could cheat a blackjack player in a number of ways using a shill is usually not one of them (a shill is an employee of the casino who plays with house money). True of some casinos you shills to attract players to the table but I have never seen a shill being used to cheat me in all my years of play. It is easy to spot shills because they never double down or split.