You need to play a LOOOONG time to express that house edge. You are still favored, but it in no way guarantee's you will win. Card counting, done right, with favorable rules, gives you less than a 2% edge over the house. Your betting patterns are SUPER obvious and you will get caught.Ĭapitalization. It's impossible to profitably count cards as a loner in a casino. This is why professional outfits have spotters and betters (called gorilla's), the spotters sit at tables and min bet forever keeping track of the count, and when the count is good they signal the gorilla to come to the table who starts betting massive bets per hand. It's SUPER obvious to spot and will easily get you flat betted or ejected. Floor people and dealers are trained to look for for folks betting $5 a hand 10 hands in a row, then all of a sudden betting $5000 on one hand.
The only way to make serious money at card counting is to DRASTICALLY increase your bet when the count is in your favor, and minimize your bet when the count is not. There are a bajillion websites out there with all the card counting techniques.
