What does the count mean in card counting?
Matt, your fired end of discussion Do to the nature of the manor in which blackjack is dealt, card played in previous rounds are effectively removed from the game untill the shuffle. Each cards removal has a small but measurable impact on the house advanatge, the removal of cards 2-7 have the effect of making the house edge smaller, the removal of an 8 has such a tiny effect is is not even really measurable, the removal of a 9, ten value card or an ace all make the odds slightly worse for the player. Card counting systems will assign point values to represent the change in the house edge each card has on the game as it is removed, naturally they will be broken into negetive and positive categories to represent their negetive and positive effects. Some cards have larger impacts on the game when they are removed when compared to others, so the card countig system may assign more points to one type of card than the otehr types.
