Puri: Card counting no longer provides an edge in casinos
Shaan Puri · Business Tricks We've Learned From Gamblers, Pickup Artists, & Feynman · Jun 28, 2024 · at 57:31
Shaan Puri explains why card counting strategies have become obsolete in modern casino environments.
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“Casinos use six decks, and they use auto shufflers now, and so the ability for the deck to get really hot has been cut down dramatically, and so, you know, they basically use six decks, which will smoothen out the variance, and then they auto shuffle, and they shuffle before you get through the whole shoe, so the whole point was like, you need to get where a lot of the cards have been used, there's only a small number of cards left, and that that small number of cards is gonna have a higher proportion of face cards for you. But that just doesn't really happen anymore. So, I don't really know where the edge is. I don't think there's an edge.”
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