Card Counting in Blackjack
Wizard of Odds (Michael Shackleford)
Mathematical explanation of card counting from actuary Michael Shackleford, covering running count, true count conversion, the Hi-Lo system, and a breakdown of which playing decisions (standing, insurance, doubling) counting most affects.
More resources on Blackjack & Card Counting
QFIT Casino Verite Suite
CVBJ to practise, CVCX and CVData to simulate. Build a bet spread to a target Risk of Ruin rather than guessing at one; the gold standard for blackjack mathematics software.
Modern Blackjack
Free online edition. Around 540 pages backed by simulation data, from the author of the Casino Verite software.
Professional Blackjack
Index tables, betting ramps and rule-variation adjustments, including the no-hole-card games dealt in Europe.
Knock-Out Blackjack
3rd edition, 2015; first published 1998. The unbalanced count that removes true-count arithmetic, and the reason card counting is accessible to people who are not mathematicians.
Blackjack Apprenticeship
Free training drills for basic strategy and counting speed, alongside the YouTube channel's teaching on rules and the Hi-Lo count.
Wizard of Odds
House-edge tables, a rule-variations calculator that prices each rule change individually, and a basic-strategy calculator for any rule set, including European no-hole-card.