#591 – FFAF: How to beat casinos with card counting

The Counsel of Trent

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Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 2 April 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

In this free-for-all-Friday Trent explores the myths and realities of card counting and how some people are able to disprove the idea that “the House always wins”.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.
0:10.5	It is free for all Friday here on the Council of Trend Podcast.
0:14.1	I'm your host, Catholic Answers Apologist and Speaker, Trent Horn.
0:17.3	Monday through Thursday, we talk about apologetics, theology, how to explain and defend the Catholic
0:21.9	faith.
0:22.9	But on Friday, we talk about whatever I want to talk about, and today I feel like talking
0:26.9	about gambling.
0:27.9	In particular, I want to talk about an element of gambling in the game of Blackjack, and
0:34.4	that would be card counting.
0:36.2	So to start with, let me just talk about gambling in general.
0:40.9	I mean, there's a lot of different views on this.
0:43.0	Some people get super into gambling.
0:45.6	They'll do sports betting.
0:47.6	They love playing poker all the time, or they're gambling addicts.
0:51.1	I don't know if I would use it as an addict necessarily.
0:54.2	I would say there's people who have a gambling compulsion, and they can, you know, lose all
0:59.0	of their money at a casino.
1:00.8	You know what's funny about casinos?
1:01.8	And we'll get to this soon.
1:03.8	Casinos will kick you out if you win too much money, but they won't kick you out if you
1:08.4	lose too much money.
1:10.1	They'll let you keep playing along there.
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