Over the last 50 years, casinos have employed a seemingly endless series of tactics to discourage and intimidate card counters. Still, blackjack remains beatable, and offers enormous profit potential for informed players. Today’s new breed of blackjack player — focused, steadfast, and willing to do what it takes to play with an edge — has refined the practices employed by their predecessors and crafted a new playing paradigm.
Before the explosion of casino gambling in the 1990s, card counters were limited by the number of places at which they could ply their trade. Fearing exposure and expulsion, they sought longevity at the expense of maximizing the power of optimal betting and playing strategies. But in today’s market, with so many casinos large and small from which to choose, the modern-day card counter can eschew apprehension and evasion and meet the game head on.
The 21st-Century Card Counter is a highly authoritative guide to card counting for profit. Written by a blackjack pro who founded the famous Church Team, manages BlackjackApprenticeship.com, leads Blackjack Bootcamps, and has earned his livelihood beating casinos for more than two decades, this book provides all the information and direction you need, along with real-life stories and interviews with active advantage players, to give you the best chance of crushing the casinos in today’s blackjack world.
Shortly after Colin Jones graduated college with a math degree, a friend learning to count cards loaned him a book on the subject. He began to study, then apply what he’d picked up from the book at the neighborhood casinos. Luckily, a large card-counting team recruited and trained his friend, who shared his newly perfected skills with Colin. The two teamed up to take on the local blackjack tables. They were so successful that they took on more partners and eventually found themselves running their own team and playing with a half-million dollars of investors’ money. Over the next four years, the Church Team won $3.2 million and provided the investors with a return that beat the stock market by 500%. After disbanding the team, Colin turned his attention to developing a blackjack-training website, BlackjackApprenticeship.com, and leading intensive Blackjack Bootcamp workshops. Today, he’s a battle-hardened advantage player who has trained hundreds of successful card counters to go hand-to-hand against casinos all over the world. The 21st-Century Card Counter is his first book.
