To keep track of the proportions of high cards, Blackjack players count cards (Tens and Aces, the cards that are good for the player) and low cards (the cards that are good for the house), these cards remain in the decks to be dealt.
We just need to know if the remaining deck has more high cards than normal or lower cards than normal. Therefore there is no need to count separately the Tens, fives, Aces, deuces, or any individual cards.
In the "Red 7 count", the high cards (Aces and Tens) are assigned the value -1, because each time one is dealt the remaining decks are a little poorer in the cards that are good for us.
Low cards (2, 3, 4, 5, and 6) are assigned the value +1, because each time one of these is dealt the remaining decks are a little better for us.
As for 8s and 9s, they are neutral cards, assigned a value of 0. This means that when we see them we ignore them, and don’t count them at all.
We count red 7s as +1, treating them like another low card. But we count black 7s as 0—that is, so they become neutral card.
That is all the system. Good luck! |