However, they tightened the game and made it much harder to count cards and win over time. In short, the NJ Supreme Court decided to leave rules banning card counting to the Casino Control Commission - who decided not to do so. In fact, the casino loves card counters who are not perfect - because they bet higher when they are wrong or miscounted. So if you want to sit at a 50 dollar table and win an average of 50 cents a hand - should you be perfect over a long period of time - some chance of success, but don't count on it. And one mistake or distraction - and they can try to distract you - can mean you have an expectation of losing. Using a device to help you or other person to assist you in the counting is cheating.Īnd if you use the Wong method (as I once did) or any other, with current casino rules - large number of decks, earlier shuffling, the ability to cap bets at a low multiple of the minimum when they want to, having the dealer or someone else count cards at tables where this is going on, if you are PERFECT (and few are), counting both cards and played cards, keeping side counts of aces and other cards, your win expectation is a bit under 1 percent.
In Nevada, casinos are considered private property where they can ban anyone, and it is trespassing to return.
