Blackjack is known to have evolved from a French card game called vingt-en-un or twenty-two. This game was started in 1700s. The Americans embraced this games later but it wasn’t as popular it were in France and this made many American casinos to start offering different forms of bonuses to make the game more enticing to gamers at that time.

Blackjack gained its popularity mainly because it is possible for any skillful player to win more of the gaming sessions and this formed a direct departure from most other casino games that are purely based on luck. One of the appropriate playing strategies that even boosted the popularity of blackjack card games is the card counting.

There were lots of playing strategies and recommendations that had been offered for the smooth play of blackjack game but one prominent recommendation was the paper called ‘Journal of the American Statistical Association’ which was published in 1956 by McDermott, Cantey, Baldwin and Maisel. These particular playing recommendations as contained in the daily media resembles the strategies that are used to play the game till date but it didn’t do much in terms of attracting more interest for the blackjack games but they still went ahead and published a strategic gaming manual with that unique system. In 1957, Dr. Edward Thorp looked through the manual and understands some elements of the card game were missed by many players at the time. He was the man that brought up the fact that with each card dealt, the compositions and the deck also changes. So with that, it was realized that some combination of some left over cards favored the players while the majority favored the house.

It was the same Dr. Thorp, who in 1962 presented his popular material/book called ‘Beat The Dealer’, which posited that the cards have unique memory and maintained that any player could rightly predict the next set of cards that may appear in the deck if such player bears in mind that each of the hand is subject to the build up of the deck while playing and pay attentions on the cards that had been played.

Card Counting was born when Dr. Thorp discovered that 6s and 5s left in the deck usually leads to a player’s disadvantage while any player has more advantage when Aces and 10s are remaining in the deck. This was after he statically analyzed the entire gaming processes. The counting can be explained further to mean that the player has more chances of winning any gaming session when there are some more 10s and the Aces games left while many 6s and 5s would usually turned out disadvantageous for any player.

There are many ‘card counting’ strategies such as the Hi-Lo Counting and the ‘K-O’. The ‘K-O’ card computation or counting system is an unbalanced system was gotten from Arnold Snyder’s unbalance Reds 8 game count which was published in 1982. With the effective use of an unbalanced gaming card computation/counting systems, any player can easily override the commonest mistakes made by many blackjack players which is estimating the remaining decks of gaming cards to be dealt.