Card Counting is a Well-Known Black Jack Strategy

If you've heard of the card game black jack, you've probably also heard of "card counting." You may not know what it is and you almost for sure don't know how to do it, but you've probably come across the term. Black jack is a game of skill and being able to count cards is one of the skills that can really help you win at black jack. Counting cards means being able to keep track of the cards that have been dealt in previous black jack hands (before the deck is shuffled) and thus knowing what cards are still left to show up. Once upon a time, card counting was really frowned upon in black jack casinos - did you ever see the movie "Rain Man"?

Card Counting is Less Important in Online Black Jack

So why is everyone not counting cards and winning at black jack. Because card counting is really, really hard. Just thinking about concentrating on playing black jack AND on counting cards gives most people a major league headache. For this reason, most people count on black jack basic strategy much more than on counting cards. In addition, in this era of online black jack, card counting is even less attractive since most online black jack software shuffle the card after every hand. When you're playing black jack online, forget the card counting (if you could ever actually do it) and stick to the basic strategy. You can count on it.