Card Counting Simplified Card counting is a strategy used in blackjack to determine when the player has a statistical advantage over the house.  This is done by tracking the ratio of high cards to low cards left in the deck.  The greater the percentage of tens, face cards and aces in the deck, the greater the advantage for the player.  The basic idea is to bet more money when the player has an advantage and less money when they are at a disadvantage. 

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Unbalanced Card Counting Systems Are Better A balanced card counting system is any system where the point values assigned to the cards balances out. That is, you have as many negative values as positive values. When you count through an entire deck using a balanced system, you start your running count at zero. You expect to end your running count at zero. If you do not reach zero, then you have mis-counted. The oldest and most popular balanced system in the Hi/Lo system.

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