Card counters spend a lot of time learning to count. They memorize basic strategy, then slowly learn to cancel the pluses and minuses. Next they learn to estimate the number of cards in the discard rack, and adjust their running count to a true count. They memorize index plays so they know when it is […]
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Darryl Purpose interview
This interview originally appeared in Blackjack Forum in 2003. The Performer Darryl Purpose is a battle-scarred veteran of the Blackjack Wars. He moved to Las Vegas at 19, and learned just enough about counting cards to lose all his money. He says, “I was the kind of counter that made Las Vegas.” He went […]
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