Do you want to know what is one of the number one questions I get from people after they see me do a memory demonstration? The question – Are you banned from casinos?

The answer – no.

The casinos don’t fear someone like myself using a memory system to memorize what cards have been played in a deck. (Plus I think they use 5 or 6 decks in most casinos). What they don’t want are card counters. What is a card counter. Well, if you saw the movie 21 base on the book, ‘Bringing Down the House’ about the MTI Students who won big bucks off the Vegas casinos you got an over view of the system.

Every card either has a 0, -1 or +1 assigned to it. And then when the card is played you either add 1, subtract one or do zero. The higher the count the better for you (+15, +16, etc) the lower the count the sooner you get away from the table.

Here is a quick explanation