Topic: Understanding the Legality and Myth of Card Counting in Blackjack - page 3. (Read 343 times)

Not sure how laws works in the UK but a lot of casinos are privately owned establishment, they can have their own rules and they can kick you out or ban you from their establishment if they want to.

If you are curious if there have been people kicked out for card counting there videos on YouTube that you can probably watch.

Card counting is possible to do anywhere, but certain casino rules might make it extremely hard to have profit while doing it.
And then there's also the so called risk of ruin aka risk of losing all your deposits, which is always there. Even the most favorable casino rules will not let you get great chances at winning without risk. There's always at least a 1% chance of you losing everything. But with the casino rules on sites that feature live gambling dealers, the risk of ruin is much higher and you'll be earning much less even with the higher risk. Card counting is most effective when the shoe is about to end. And for live gambling host companies like Evolution, their rules are that the shoe changes when it's half way! So it's very hard to count cards because it's very rarely that you'll be close to a shoe finishing. Only if a dealer splits closer to the end in spit of them being instructed to split close to the middle and even then, it can take ages because many people sit on a table.

I watched a pretty good video on someone trying to card count online:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjiVpO1hlvk

It's also pretty entertaining so you'll have no problems watching it, but if you want the long story short here it is:
Basically it's possible to count cards even online on live gambling. But it's not that worth it because of high risk and low reward.

I have learned that card counting is legal in blackjack but casinos frown at it. Most casinos have a surveillance camera that watch each table to catch a player who caught counting cards. A player may be thrown out or banned from the casino if caught counting cards because there is a belief that it gives the player an edge. How true is this or this a myth? If for instance card counting is legal in the UK but outlawed by casinos doesn't it makes it illegal?