Card counting 'is a perfectly fine way of making money'
Thursday 27th March 2008
Blackjack players who count cards are not criminals and there should not be a problem with people who learn how take money from casinos, one expert believes.
Jeff Ma, who made several million dollars from playing the game across the US, thinks casinos take too much cash from players and that there is nothing wrong with turning the tables on them, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
"There's no reason the casinos should be taking as much money from the people as they do," Ma claimed.
"It's OK for people to make money off them."
Ma's life story is portrayed in new casino movie 21, which is based upon the exploits of him and his team in Atlantic City and Las Vegas.
Despite making a lot of money from blackjack and developing a system for winning, Ma has yet to be enshrined in the game's hall of fame, which contains Ken Uston and The Four Horsemen of Aberdeen along with other notable players.
Blackjack players who count cards are not criminals and there should not be a problem with people who learn how take money from casinos, one expert believes.