Enter the method of how to count cards a highly glamourised blackjack technique used to beat casinos at their own game ever since hollywood trotted out an autistic dustin hoffman in rain man and an arguably handicapped zach galifinakis in the hangover the general public seems to think you need to either be on the spectrum or a true genius to keep track of playing cards. You count low cards as 1 and high cards as 1 the higher the count the bigger the proportion of high cards to low cards advantage players will increase their bets once a specific count is reached to be sure that they have an advantage they need to translate the current total into the true count first. Ways to count cards in blackjack lets briefly go through the rules of the game you need to beat the dealer collecting more points than them but less than 21 according to the rules cards have the following point values in blackjack 2 10 value according to number k q j equals 10 a counts as 1 or 11 while the round is going on it is crucial to know when to stop or conversely . In blackjack it is favorable to the player when there are more aces and 10 value cards 10s jacks queens and kings remaining in the shoe so card counting is simply using a system to keep track of the ratio of low cards to high cards step 1 assign a value to every card