Guides
Card Counting Guides for Beginners
Longer, plain-English explanations to read before or alongside the lessons. Each guide links to the drills and quizzes that practice it.
- 01 · Start here
How Card Counting Works
Why the cards already dealt change the odds of the cards still in the shoe, what a count actually measures, and what counting can and cannot do.
Read the guide - 02 · Core skill
Running Count vs. True Count
The difference between the running count and the true count, how to convert with deck estimation, worked examples, and common mistakes.
Read the guide - 03 · First system
Hi-Lo Card Counting
Learn the Hi-Lo card counting system step by step: card values, keeping the count, true count conversion, bet ramps and the most important strategy deviations.
Read the guide
Prefer to learn by doing? The six interactive lessons cover the same path in shorter steps, adapted to whichever counting system you choose.