Step 0: Learn Blackjack

Step 1: Use Math to Avoid Losing For No Good Reason

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackjack#Basic_strategy

From Wikipedia, CC-By-SA 3.0

Step 2: Bet Small When You Are Going to Lose

Evan Amos CC-By-SA 3.0

cygnus921 on Flickr, CC-By 2.0

Pinkpasty, CC-By 3.0

Step 3: Count Cards

Played:

Still in deck:

Played:

Still in deck:

+1

+1

+1

-1

= 2

Step 4: Bet Big When You Are Going to Win

The Bad News

Step 5: Team Up

+12

+3

-9

-4

-6

+2

+12

+3

-9

-4

-6

+2

$$$

How Well Does It Work?

Does It Still Work?

Who Cares?

Learn More

•  Ben Mezrich, "Bringing Down the House" (MIT team)
  https://enwp.org/Bringing_Down_the_House_(book)
•  "This American Life" #466, "Blackjack" https://www.thisamericanlife.org/466/blackjack
•  "Counting Cards", https://enwp.org/Card_counting
• "21"
• "The Last Casino"