Counting Cards Strategies for Poker Players

Video Transcript

" I am Joe Marshall with Expert Village.com and today we are going to learn how to win at poker. With most forms of poker, it is almost entirely impossible to get a good sense of what cards somebody is holding just by counting them because most of the cards on the table you cannot see. If you are playing a community game where there are five community cards up on the table like in seven card stud or Texas Hold 'Em, you could see what’s there on the table. You can remember what has already been previously played in conjunction with the odds and probabilities of people making a full house or four of a kind and use these things all in conjunction to get a good idea, good sense of what is happening and what people are going to be holding. But as far as actually knowing exactly what each person is holding, card counting and poker are kind of the rougher of the take. If you want to learn to count cards, it is best learn blackjack because that game actually has a memory unlike poker."