21 Much travelled (card counting explained)
Warning: Before reading you must have a basic understanding of how to play Blackjack.  Not how to count cards, not basic strategy, but how to play the game.
In the book Bringing Down the House, and the movie a card counting team takes Las Vegas for millions. In this article you will learn why Blackjack is beatable, the basic hi/lo card counting system (used by the MIT team), and practice drills to hone the skill.
First, Blackjack can be beaten because the game has a past and a future.  How does it have a past, and future simple.  The cards that were dealt affect the cards going to be dealt.  To beat the game the player must master basic strategy, a card counting system, and know both these so well they can hold a conversation with anyone.  Sounds complicated and hard, but anyone with patience and practice can achieve this.
Second, the hi/lo card counting system.  The easiest of all the card counting systems, but still gives the player an advantage is the hi/lo system.  Harvey Dubner, later refined by Julian Braun, and Stanford Wong had introduced a way to track high cards from low cards.  In Blackjack the house (casino) has an advantage when the deck is rich in low cards, but the player has an advantage if the deck is rich in high cards.

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