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That or you make your very modest living counting cards AMD adjusting bets assuming a 4-6 deck shoe in blackjack. I realize this is the superminority, and since the MIT kids most casinos have varied the amount of decks in the shoe on blackjack tables, making it difficult to convert a running count to a true count (-12 means a lot less if there are 6 decks as opposed to 2). That said, many non-Vegas casinos have been running tables with full decks in predictable patterns. Counting cards in Vegas may as well help you add much as having a card telling you the optimum strategies nowadays because they will through partial decks into the shoe at random, but many smaller casinos haven’t followed suit yet and are still prime pickings if you can fly below the radar.