youtube winning at blackjack (memory trick?)

Is he counting cards or is he really remembering every single card that was dealt?
Any validity to this clip?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1mweFSqACU
Derren Brown is a sly one so you can never tell if its real or not

can this be done with 8 deck shoes? (7 stickers for each object?)

I'd look, but I'm allergic to YouTube videos. My doctor won't let me near them.

Norm,
Maybe it's just the peanuts you eat while you watch them.

Have you seen so few YouTube videos in your life that you need to ask?

Seeing something on YouTube is one step up from having a friend who has a friend who saw it.

What if?

Im just curious. If you can memorize every card that came out of a 4 deck shoe (lets say with 1 deck cut off), what kind of advantage can you gain with a multiparameter system side counting every card?

Neither, it's complete horse sh*t, he hits a hard 16 vs a 6?!

Of course he pulls the miracle four but even if he knew the next card was a four he should have doubled down.

what a brilliant question! not so much card counting as card memorisation.

now the maths on that would be amazing!

Well, he explained that after a while he gets a good idea of what is left in the shoe. If in that scenario, there happened to be a LARGE disproportion of small cards, it would be right to hit, even without memorizing the deck. I have an index of -25 zen to hit 16v6.

I did a sim with an 8-deck shoe. Flat betting will roughly halve the house edge (EV = -0.3%). Of course, spreading your bets will improve that, but if you're going to spread your bets, just use a level 1 counting system which is a million times easier.

Until a few years back the UK Gambling Commission only allowed casino's to offer D9-11 "to protect the ploppy". Although this has been changed to DOA for sometime now, some casino's still only offer the old rules, so doubling may not have been an option. I often play as a casino by choice that offers this crap rule as they compensate by giving 85-95% pen and a few favourable errors.

of course, he could of made this play 13 times and only aired the one time that it worked out. With some clever video editing you could make someone who never played before look like a master of BJ.

The video is clearly BS; even with perfect knowledge of the cards his play is completely unrealistic. They just did lots of takes until he got lucky, or, more likely, simply stacked the deck for filming. It's TV, after all.

This guy fancies himself a master conman and manipulator, and has made something of a career out of it. But his actual marks are the people watching his TV show. Pretty good con, really!