Blackjack Ledger

Drill 02 · True Count Snap

The division is the hard part.

Tagging cards is the easy half. Ten rounds of running count over decks remaining, to the nearest half — the number every bet and every deviation actually runs on.

Drill 03 · Deck Estimate

Trust your eye, then check it.

Ten discard trays. Say how many decks are still in the shoe. Everything downstream divides by this number, so an eye half a deck out puts every decision half a point out with it.

Drill 04 · Index Recall

The count is in. Now play.

Ten hands, each with a true count attached. Half sit above the index and half below it, so always deviating scores fifty. Answers come from the same tables the app plays from, at your table rules.

Drill 05 · Live Table

Three seats and a dealer.

A quarter of a real shoe, dealt to two other players and to you. Play your own hand while you keep the count — that is the part that actually breaks people. The dealer's hole card does not count until it is turned over.

Cards come off the shoe on the right and go to seat 1 first, the way a dealer works from their own left. You act second. Nobody tells you how far through the shoe you are — read the tray, the same as at a table. At the end, call the running count and the decks left.

Drill 06 · Count Down

Twenty cards. No pad.

Cards go past at the tempo you pick. Nothing to tap, no meter, no feedback — then it asks for the running count. This is the one the table actually tests.

Twenty cards dealt

What is the running count?

Whole numbers, and the sign matters. No partial credit — a count one out is a count you cannot bet on.

Drill 07 · Hand Count

A whole hand, in one look.

Cards do not arrive one at a time at a table — they land together. Net the group, not the running total. Twelve groups.