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McBride Duplin On Card Counting
“Kinda Almost Partially Just a Tad Somewhat Correct” 

The Perfect In The Imperfect

Jr. has laughed at my expense for years.  Sometimes I could never understand the reasons why, while at other times he would just find it somehow hard to believe, “Everyone in my family does it like that!”  In my sometimes long “Precision Explanations” as I like to think of them, I would use the term “Yes and no.”  Whenever Jr. hears me say this short phrase, he laughs, makes himself comfortable, usually cracks a beer, and puts his feet up.

Well, that is the best way to explain our theories on card counting.  Were we right?  Well, “Yes and no.”  What we believed was quite simple.  Thorp had it all wrong.  We were logically positive and very mathematically certain that Thorp was backwards in his theories, and we believed that more small cards in the deck were better for the players.  Good thing we didn’t sell our theories in a book, but decided to prove them like real men, so in the end we could support our findings, or disprove ourselves. 

The Up Card 

The reason we believed what we did was that the Dealer Up Card seemed to be the most important card in the entire game.  We knew that when the dealer flipped a Face card we would get hammered, very badly.  We would never split or double at this time and it is fact those are great plays for us.  We also knew if there were more face cards left in the deck, we’d have a larger bet out and have a greater chance of getting at least one in our hand.  If we had one, we’d never split this hand or double it.  Also, if we did get a bad hand, and the dealer flipped up a face card, we’d have to hit first. 

All this put together made us logically sound.  We did know that Thorp was one hell of a mathematician, and that Blackjack was numbers, and numbers are math.  Thorp, like most mathematicians, likely wouldn’t give two farts in a windstorm about logic.  We did know logically you should be able to get a 19 point hand in cribbage, but try as Jr. (Don’t believe that crap, it was Oz who did that) did for 6 weeks in 1999, it just wasn’t going to happen (So we invented a new variation of the game where you could actually truly get 19).

We did feel very confident in what we would find.  We knew that if there were more small cards, 3 though 6 left in the deck, the dealer had a better chance of starting with one of these cards.  When that happened, we knew we would split and double down at all those mouth-watering opportunities.  We also knew that when the dealer started with a small one, we’d never bust out by hitting, leaving us having the maximum amount of hands possible.  We also knew that, if we added up all the times the dealer flips a low one, we kick his ass.  If there was a lot of low ones, there was a better chance we hit two of them in our hand, and that was possibly a good hand for doubling or splitting.    

What Are We Going To Do About It? 

Jr. and I sat back for a year, and started to ask questions about the game Blackjack.  We asked and asked ourselves anything we could think of that someone might like to know about Blackjack.  After a while (that is a great poem by the way) we simple ran out of questions to ask.  This would be the foundation of the best Blackjack program ever made.  Three years later, here we are with all the answers.  We could do anything, and find out anything we wanted.  We actually cracked a 400-year old game wide open. 

You can imagine how fast Jr. and I verified our Card Counting theories once we had the computer program.  Imagine if we were right?  Well, don’t waste your time, we weren’t (see how fast you get answers with this program).  Your time is precious and that is partially why we made the computer program in the first place.  So if you have theories of your own, anything, you can just set up the program and quickly find answers to anything. 

Yes and No 

When we ran tests, we found that we were right.  We actually do win more hands when the deck has an abundance of smaller cards.  We play more hands, getting more splits and double downs and more wins.  We logically knew this, years ago, about when we started.  It was no real surprise that our card counting methods were logically sound.  That is something we could take great pride in.  Jr. and I were right, but…but…Thorp wasn’t wrong.  Damn those mathematicians.

Although more face cards in the deck meant less wins, it meant less losses and Blackjacks.  See, although we were clearly getting more wins, we were even getting more loses.  Our win/loss percentage was worse at the counts at which we thought we’d be getting more wins.  It sure as hell didn’t make any logical sense to us how we could be so right about something, and yet so mathematically wrong.  (See the thumbnail for examples)

The Playing 21 Program was so powerful it could show how you did for any of over 25 billion counting methods (example below right).  As we write this, we are still unsure what way is most correct.  We are learning more and more every single day.  We know that thousands of counting  methods do work, all turning huge profits, no matter the Number of Decks or House Rules.  The beautiful thing is it no longer takes years of asking questions, but minutes finding answers.

Undoubtedly the next year will be the biggest in Blackjack history.  We have already made shocking discoveries.  We know we will find more and more, when we have thousands of people running the program.  You can be part of this exploration, and for much cheaper than it would cost you to go to the casino tonight.  Make a solid decision, buy the program and have the satisfaction, as we did, of not only proving everything for yourself, but finally never having to take another’s word for anything about Blackjack.

Value Of One Bet

If you lose a $25 bet, you are out $25.

If we could have shown you how to play that hand correctly in the
  Hand Breakdown vs. Dealer Up Card…

You could have won that hand

Keeping your $25

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Getting paid $25

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$50

The Program Is Yours Forever.