Side-counting every cards?

[positiveEV]

I recently read some books about mnemonic techniques to help me to study and some of them explained how to memorize a full deck perfectly. I practiced a little bit and can perfectly memorize the order of the 52 cards of a shuffled deck in a little bit over 5 minutes. Some folks on TV use the same tricks to do it under 30 seconds but that would be pointless for what I want to do.

Since I only need to remember 10 "different" cards for blackjack, I think I could pretty easily use these techniques to keep a side count of everything with some practice and by using some other techniques I think I could even remember some slugs of cards perfectly.

What kind of advantage would I have from doing so, how the hell am I supposed to adjust my betting ramp (biggest problem!) and find the index plays, etc.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Sonny]

What kind of advantage would I have from doing so, how the hell am I supposed to adjust my betting ramp (biggest problem!) and find the index plays, etc.

Your exact advantage would depend on a lot of things, but as long as you are reasonably accurate it would be huge. Just bet big when the slug comes around and play it as it comes. Maybe this will get your imagination going:

http://www.blackjackinfo.com/bb/showthread.php?p=45681#post45681

Obviously with memory skills like yours the examples above could be expanded greatly.

-Sonny-

 

[positiveEV]

The only thing is that, with my current level of skills, it would not be practical to do that in a real casino environment. It takes me about 5-10 seconds to remember that card X is the Yth card that was dealt, so doing it for every card would be nearly impossible especially if the dealer is fast at taking cards out of the table when someone busts or when he have a blackjack!

I guess it will get faster with some practice. I never heard of anyone actually doing this, even tho I saw many guys memorizing a deck quickly on Youtube.