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Card counting requires multiple people at the table surreptitiously working together. Anon needs to watch a video on how to count cards.
Nope, it does not. You can have a team, but you absolutely can card count on your own in BJ. I think you are the one who needs to watch a video I am afraid.
You honestly don't even really need a team to get an edge over the house. My mom is addicted to gambling and black jack is the only thing that keeps her from being broke.
If you sit at a table with people who actually know what they're doing, and are all focused on actually playing together vs the house instead of playing to win every hand they can...you can all make a good deal of money.
I've had to on multiple occasions go and pick my 60 year old mother from the casino because shes spent over 20 hours at the table and can't drive anymore. Once you have a table full of people who know how to play together nobody leaves. Because as soon as you do, some drunk dude is going to come in and ruin the count by doing a dumb split or something that only benefits themselves.
At it's simplest card counting involves keeping track of how many hard 10s (10, k, q, j) there are in the shoe, assuming you know how many decks are in the shoe and that the discard isn't reshuffled into the shoe too often. When you find yourself in a situation where there are a lot of tens still in the deck but a lot of the smaller value cards have been played, you bet heavily and stand on low values hoping that the dealer will tend to bust (in most casinos a dealer will hit on 15 or below and stand on 16 or above, more tens in the deck means it's more likely that the dealer will bust, yielding a small statistical advantage to the player in a tens-heavy scenario)