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The game of chemin de fer was introduced to the U.S. in the 19th century but it wasn't until the mid twentieth century that a technique was created to beat the casino in chemin de fer. This article is going to grab a rapid peak at the creation of that system, Counting Cards.

When casino gambling was authorized in Nevada in 1934, black jack sky-rocketed into popularity and was usually gambled on with 1 or 2 decks. Roger Baldwin published a dissertation in 1956 which explained how to reduce the house advantage built on odds and performance history which was really complicated for those who weren't mathematicians.

In '62, Dr. Thorp utilized an IBM 704 computer to refine the mathematical strategy in Baldwin's dissertation and also created the 1st card counting strategies. Dr. Ed Thorp wrote a tome called "Beat the Dealer" which illustrated card counting techniques and the tactics for lowering the house advantage.

This spawned a large increase in twenty-one competitors at the US betting houses who were trying to implement Dr. Ed Thorp's strategies, much to the consternation of the casinos. The technique was not easy to comprehend and hard to execute and thusly improved the earnings for the casinos as more and more folks took to gambling on chemin de fer.

However this large growth in earnings was not to continue as the players became more sophisticated and more accomplished and the system was further refined. In the 1980's a bunch of students from Massachusetts Institute of Technology made card counting a part of the everyday vernacular. Since then the casinos have introduced numerous methods to counteract players who count cards including (but not limited to), multiple decks, shoes, shuffle machines, and speculation has it, complex computer software to read actions and detect "cheaters". While not illegal being caught counting cards will get you barred from most if not all betting houses in vegas.