The Ace Count Strategies for Blackjack

Video Transcript

"I am Joe Marshall with Expert Village.com and today we are going to learn how to win at Blackjack. Okay, we are going to be talking about card counting, card counting systems and money management. You only want to get into this if you have an iron clad memorized; great strategy based off the charts that we are showing. The first system, it is very simple to do; you are going to simply count aces. In this case we are really using one deck and you could see that there are three aces in play; there are only four aces to a deck. So this is already a bad situation to be in because you are not going to be getting any naturals, which is this right here happens to be 21, right off the bat. You’re going to have to actually work to make your 21s and it is really risky so you might want to switch tables or just continue to bet just the minimum bets until that swing comes back and the cards have been reshuffled. When you play a six deck game, you have 24 aces in the deck, so you would want to count till you hit 24. Some people suggest if you cannot do that in your head to count the aces with your chips because if you have a lot of chips you can just put two chips over for two aces, four chips over for four and keep doing that. I recommend not doing that. I think it’s really obvious and the eye in the sky can tell you to stop playing just based off of the way you’re moving your chips around. If you have to do that, I would recommend only slightly jogging them that way it is kind of looks like you have a nervous habit instead of counting something. But best bet is just to memorize them in your head, do all the counting in your head, don’t ever signal or have cues for yourself out visually for the cameras to see. That is the ace count. "