How to Maximize Your Online Casino Experience
It has never been more important than it is right now to have forms of entertainment that allow you to remain in the comfort of your own home. With the multitude of people staying home and doing whatever they can to stave off the ever-threatening boredom, many are turning to the simple and classic entertainment of gambling in online casinos. With that in mind, we have a couple of helpful hints to guide both new and seasoned gamblers to maximize their online casino experience.
One of the best known and most profitable systems for profiting at a casino is card counting. There is even an entire Hollywood film dedicated to card-counting called 21 (which is worth the watch, by the way). The reason card counting has gained so much publicity is that, well, it works. It has been mathematically proven to provide an empirical edge to the player when executed correctly. By virtue of this card-counting is often frowned upon by casinos, leaving many to wonder if it is safe and is card counting illegal.
The short answer is that it depends entirely on where you are and how you are executing the system. In many places, if you are playing alone and changing your bet based on your own ‘count’, you are not breaking any rules. That being said, most if not all gambling establishments reserve the right to remove any player from their casino and have no reservations practicing this right for identified card-counters.
Do not let this type of information confuse or scare you, casinos are not worrying about hobbyist gamblers who walk away with a little extra spending money, you have to be doing this professionally to be flagged and removed from a location. Of course, this all changes entirely when playing in online casinos, as there is no guarantee that the program running the game is using four full decks of cards, or shuffling the cards after each and every hand.
There are luckily a few methods of card counting that do not rely on how many decks are in play, requiring the player to simply know that the deck is not being shuffled after each hand. The link above provides all of this information and more, including the basics of the card counting method. These basics are to assign a point value to each card in the deck, based on how beneficial it is for the player to have that card removed from the deck. This means that the lower cards are assigned positive values and the higher cards are assigned negative values.
The reasoning for this is that it is better for the player to have more face-cards remaining in the deck – this increases the chance that the dealer will bust while simultaneously increasing the chance that the players will receive a better hand and have greater success when splitting or doubling down.
With all of this being said, please always follow the rules and laws of wherever you decide to enjoy your online casinos, as the best ways to maximize your online casino experience are to follow the rules and then make them work for you! As always, please play responsible – and have fun!