Blackjack card counting system by Edward Thorp

Mathematics in gambling: card counting and blackjack basic strategy.

Blackjack card counting system by Mathematics Professor Edward Thorp

Posted by Shirley Ann Jennings - SAJA '55 on August 03, 2000.
I have tried to do some research to pass on to everyone regarding Edward Thorp (blackjack card counting) and found the data that follows which is some of the basis of Chip's comments to you. Please allow everyone to have a chnce to see it. SAJA
Chapter 3
Card-counting is an advanced gambling tool, which could in theory give a player the advantage in almost any card game. Card-counting at blacKjack was developed in the 1950's by Dr Edward Thorp. Professor Thorp is a character so extraordinary that had he not really lived, then as a character of fiction his exploits would have been dismissed as far-fetched. Unquestionably the greatest mind ever to turn his attention to gambling, Thorp has made small fortunes at blackjack, roulette, and sports betting; he also pioneered the incredibly successful "warrant-hedging" technique on the greatest gambling game of all, the stockmarket. Over $65 billion have passed through his hands over the last few decades, and his personal fortune can only be guessed at. He is without doubt the most successful gambler who has ever lived. All of this was due to an extraordinary ability to understand the mathematics of gambling games and devise practical systems to bend chance to his will.

Experimenting with the game of blackjack, Thorp discovered that when you remove certain cards from the deck, this alters the house advantage. He also found that a player could sometimes have the advantage over the house. For example, removing all the 5's from a deck puts the odds in the player's favour. These favourable situations are outnumbered by unfavourable ones, and so on average an unskilled player would lose more than he wins. But, Thorp discovered, if the player knows when he has the advantage, he can bet more than when the house has the advantage, and so win more money than he loses.
Thorp constructed his highly successful ten-count system, with which he won many thousands of dollars from the casinos at blackjack. They retaliated with a series of countermeasures designed to thwart the "Counters", the disciples who read Thorp's bestselling "Beat the Dealer" and tried their own luck with his gambling system. There are still some professional Counters around today, although the casinos are wise to the danger and bar any blackjack player they suspect is counting cards.

Ion Saliu's note
Card counting, as devised by Edward E. Thorp is a footnote to gambling history now. It offered a slight advantage in one-deck games, one player against the dealer only, and especially towards the end of the deck. Ideally, a player could destroy the blackjack game IF knowing the composition of the deck AND the sequence of the remaining cards in the deck. The latter part is the REAL problem: Nobody will ever be able to know the SEQUENCE of the remaining cards in the deck.

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: : Blackjack card counting system by Mathematics Professor Edward Thorp. I have tried to do some research to pass on to everyone regarding Edward Thorp and found the data that follows which is some of the basis of Chip's comments to you. : Card-counting in blackjack is an advanced gambling tool, which could in theory give a player the advantage in almost any card game. Card-counting was developed in the 1950's by Dr Edward Thorp. Professor Thorp is a character so extraordinary that had he not really lived, then as a character of fiction his exploits would have been dismissed as far-fetched. Unquestionably the greatest mind ever to turn his attention to gambling, Thorp has made small fortunes at blackjack, roulette, and sports betting. He is without doubt the most successful gambler who has ever lived. All of this was due to an extraordinary ability to understand the mathematics of gambling games and devise practical gambling systems to bend chance to his will. Thorp discovered that when you remove certain cards from the blackjack deck, this alters the house advantage. He also found that a player could sometimes have the advantage over the house. For example, removing all the 5's from a deck puts the odds in the blackjack player's favour. These favorable situations are outnumbered by unfavourable ones, and so on average an unskilled player would lose more than he wins. But, Thorp discovered, if the player knows when he has the advantage, he can bet more than when the house has the advantage, and so win more money than he loses. Thorp constructed his highly successful ten-count blackjack system, with which he won many thousands of dollars from the casinos at blackjack. The disciples who read Thorp's bestselling 'Beat the Dealer' and tried their own luck with his gambling system. There are still some professional Counters around today, although the casinos are wise to the danger and bar any player they suspect is counting. This is about gambling mathematics, math, maths. Study mathematics in gambling, probability, blackjack casino gambling. Why this aura of legend surrounding card counting at blackjack? Even more mystique is added when considering that Las Vegas is still barring card counters from playing blackjack. Says Carl Sifakis: "And what of the casinos today? Blackjack is a much bigger game today than it was before 'Beat the Dealer' appeared. More people than ever patronize the tables and casinos today make more money from the game than ever before. That's a significant bottom line." Roger Gros, senior editor of "Casino Player" magazine writes in his 1996 "Casino Gambling the Ultimate Play-To-Win Guide": "After all, casinos make most of the money they make at the table games via blackjack. It's great advertising when someone reports a big win at the blackjack tables. Blackjack players have been encouraged for many years to believe that blackjack can be beaten, and the casinos don't want to do anything to disrupt that message." (pg.30). : I think the legend of card counting plays as the most successful means of advertising for the casinos. It certainly attracts a large number of players who believe counting at blackjack is a road to riches. There are also other ways that the card counting legend favors the casinos. Read any book on card counting and virtually all of them contain the same cliché. "If you are a blackjack card counter, make some bonehead plays so that the pitboss won't ban you!" I think many card counters take the advice seriously. The casinos owe big time to all authors of card-counting books. Then, in places where it is legal to ban skilled players from the blackjack action, the casinos commit downright robbery. From what I have read, the casinos show a strong bias towards barring a player when he/she is at a serious LOSS! I read once that a known card counter was losing some $14,000. Exactly at that point, the pitboss approached the counter and asked him to leave the blackjack game! Get it? The $14,000 went immediately to the casino bottom line. Meanwhile, the blackjack player was deprived of a reasonable chance to recuperate his loss. After all, blackjack is almost an even-odds game for a player using the basic strategy. It is fair to expect swings in the winning and losing columns of the player. The title of this casino blackjack book: "Blackjack card counting system by Edward Thorp". Experimenting with the game of blackjack, Thorp discovered that when you remove certain cards from the blackjack deck, this alters the house advantage to the blackjack player – basis of card counting. Read on Edward Thorp, gambling, blackjack, BJ, cards, counting, penetration, high, low, positive, negative, neutral, count, casino, deck, permutations, card counting, blackjack basic strategy.

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