Actually card counting itself is a lot easier than people make it out to be, the problem isn't counting the cards and knowing when the deck is "loaded" and it's time to make your big bets. The problem is that that "eye in the sky" knows how to count cards too and it's almost impossible to make any real money counting cards without getting tossed out before you have made your first thousand bucks. Originally Posted by GaGamblerA good friend of mine who lives in Las Vegas used to go out after work once or twice a week, and he and his friends, who were all professional traders, would count cards. He was banned from 5 casinos and his boss was banned from about 12. I believe they were fairly conservative, and wouldn't raise their bets by over 5X when the deck was in their favor.
With better technology have they gotten more sophisticated about tracking card counting than they used to be? Also I wonder whether the Casinos have gotten together and created some kind of a black list, so that if you're banned from one you're banned from them all.