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BLACKJACK PLAYERS BEWARE

Card counters beware! It is bad enough that you have to too often count against 6 to 8 decks but did you ever wonder why maybe the best count ever held by the best of card counting players may still get beat? This puzzles even the best card counting players.

Card counting is based on a "random" shuffle of the cards which is the best way to win big at blackjack. However, if dealers feel they may have a card counter in front of them they can possibly try and shuffle the cards less randomly, less often and less evenly which may result in a less than fair shuffle of the cards! Consequently, dealers may not be randomly shuffling at all in the purest sense but instead may just be "mixing in the clumps" of high cards and low cards.

In this mixing of the clumps you may try and spot where the clumps of high cards go when the dealer is shuffling then when the dealer allows you to cut the cards you can try and cut into the clump of high cards the best you can. ANY edge can make or break you on any given night at the blackjack tables.

On an uglier note too many casinos nowadays are using machines to shuffle the cards so you cannot spot the clumps but you may be getting a "random" shuffle which could possibly help your overall odds.

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