--- title: '6 Deck Card Counting Practice With a Bet Spread' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=7zniw7LFccA' video_id: '7zniw7LFccA' date: 2026-08-12 duration_sec: 2810 channel: 'A1 Blackjack' --- # 6 Deck Card Counting Practice With a Bet Spread > Source: [6 Deck Card Counting Practice With a Bet Spread](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7zniw7LFccA) ## Summary This video is a practical card counting exercise for a six-deck blackjack game. The host sets up a simulated table with a $50 minimum bet and demonstrates a specific bet spread based on the true count, while encouraging viewers to count along. The session includes three rounds at increasing speeds, with a final review of the card counter's performance and a discussion of variance. ### Key Points - **Setup and Bet Spread** [00:01] — Six-deck shoe, two floppies, $50 minimum table. Bet spread: true count +1 = two spots of $100, +2 = two spots of $200, up to +5 = two spots of $500 (max $5,000). - **Shuffle and Fairness** [00:57] — The host does a quick riffle shuffle and strips to ensure the shoe isn't rigged, leaving the rest of the cards in a random order. - **Round 1: Counting Practice** [01:36] — First round at 1x speed. The host counts along, and at the end verifies the count by checking the discard tray (which should be the opposite of the running count). - **Round 2: Faster Speed** [17:30] — Second round at 1.25x speed. The card counter loses some big bets (two spots of $400 and $300) due to variance, ending down. - **Round 3: Fastest Speed** [31:49] — Third round at 1.5x speed. The host suggests viewers pick a pile to follow if they can't keep up. The card counter ends up down 16 green chips (about $400). - **Final Review and Variance Explanation** [43:46] — The host reviews the floppies' and card counter's chip counts. He explains that losing minimum bets in positive counts is normal due to variance, and that big bets are often lost despite the advantage. ### Conclusion The video provides a hands-on card counting practice session for six-deck blackjack, emphasizing the importance of bet spreads and the reality of variance. It's a practical drill for viewers to improve their counting skills and understand the financial swings of the game. ## Transcript what we're going to be doing today. I have a six-deck shoe ready to go for us. two floppies that are going to be playing in these two spots just flat $50 minimum table. That way it's easy to pay out blackjacks three to two with three chips three green chips to two green chips here. Our card counter, minimum of 50 anything below a true count of plus one. At a true count of plus one, we're going to go from one spot of 50 to had a true one one two spots, excuse me, of $100. That's going to represent a true one kind of that many $100 chips. So, this would be a true two two spots of 200 all the way up to a true five is going to be where we're maxing out at two spots of 500. $5,000. Hopefully, that's enough to get this going through three rounds. Each faster. We're going to start at one time speed and then 1.25 speed and then 1.5 Um also, just so you know I'm not rigging this in any way. I'm going to take the first chunk of cards, give them just a quick riffle shuffle, some strips, and that way the rest of the cards behind it should be out of any in. All right. Oh, I got a burn card. I'll discard tray cam set up for you over here that we can judge the discard tray correctly as with six decks it's a little bit trickier compared to double deck, which I have going weekly on my Patreon if you're unaware. So, you can check that out if you'd like. Otherwise, you guys ready to count? I'm going to shut up and let you do it. Ready, get set. set. Let's count. Um I'm going to write mine down just so you I'm going to write mine down just so you believe me. All right, this plus the burn card should be the opposite of what ours is. Let's count it out. Here we have one zero D1 zero D1 D2 D1 zero D1 zero one zero one zero D1 zero one zero one two three four three four three two three four three four three two one two one zero D1 D2 D3 D2 D1 zero also need a count of zero if our bets and count were correct. And it was, right? Let me get this shuffled it here for round number two. and then I was only cutting off just a little bit less than a deck. So, we got lots of reps in. So, if you're really interested there Okay, I'll throw those into the shoe. Get a burn card. Throw that into our discard tray. I still have our discard tray camera out Um we'll start back with our minimum bets. Looks like we're up as the card counter currently. Which is always good. Actually, everyone's up a little bit. Okay, got our minimum 50s out there. By the way, if you have like uh $10 minimum six-deck table, you could you know, play along with your own piles of chips. Maybe you have uh $5 chips or something realistic for your bankroll. All right, don't think of these as like 50 bucks. Think of it as just as like two chips or whatever unit maybe you're using. Um it's just a made-up bet spread. Nothing special about it, but um you can don't have chips, by the way, you can go to casinosupply.com. Use code A1BJ to get 10% off your chips, your discard trays, your shoes, um Carlo chips personally. That's what I use. Um they have nice weight to them. Feels nice and sturdy when you're playing, so. Anyway, casinosupply.com use code A1BJ for 10% off your blackjack needs. All for 10% off your blackjack needs. All right, round two. Let's count. counts. Hopefully, yours is the same as mine and that we're both right. Okay. Again, this plus the burn card should be the opposite of what our count is. Let's see if we're right. We have zero, one, zero. That's not true. We have zero, one, still one, zero, one, zero. D1, zero, D1, zero, D1, D2, D1, D2, D1, D2. D1, D2, D3, D4, D5, D4, D3. D2. D3. D2, D1, zero, one. count of minus two, which is the opposite. Card counter did not do well that time. Um I think at one point we had a true plus four out there. Which was two spots of $400. We lost it. The time before that we lost two spots of $300. sometimes. Hopefully get it back this sometimes. Hopefully get it back this next time. little bit faster at 1.25 speed, this one's going to be at 1.5 speed. Um if you can't quite keep up with that, that's fine. All right. You might want to go back and maybe just pick a pile or something and just watch that and try to emulate it with your chips and counts and things and see if you can, you know, count along. You kind of get three at each of those different speeds. That's you. Um anyway, I got a burn card in the discard tray. Still have our discard tray camera up. Uh one other thing is that is kind of like this where I count along using six deck and um I might even put some early access on my Patreon. If you that, um maybe let me know down below in the comments. I or if if there's a little tweak to this that you want. This is kind of a trial one run, you might say. But anyway, we have our minimum bets of 50 for each. Right out of green chips here, so hopefully we can make it all the way through. Or maybe we can't. That might be better, wins. But anyway, here we go. This is round number three, 1.5. Let's count. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. and see if we're right. Uh, but first off, just so you know, these guys, what they start with, we'll do the two floppies and then the card counter. Don't think it went as well for the card guy some a black chip because he ran out of greens, so I'll give him four greens that way. He started with two piles of tens of 20 chips. 1 2 3 4 5 Oops. 10. So, he actually was up one chip after all that. Up $25. Um this dude, I think this is in piles of 10. So, he is up 10. And not quite 2 3 4 5 6 7 17 chips for him. And our card counter started with five of those. And then 1 2 3 with five of those. And then 1 2 3 4 5. two stacks of this one. So, we are we have what? Four of that. So, we're down have what? Four of that. So, we're down 16 green chips for our card counter. Um was really high, we just had some bad variance there and lost um a few of know, several hundred dollars out. And so, that's kind of a big difference. before is a lot of times if you have like let's say you're your big bets come out with the black chips, chips, you probably will more than likely lose some of those minimum bets. All right? So, like your green chips, that's why that happened in this case. Um in fact, at one point I took a $500 chip and converted it, but then I put it back as I had more black chips than um than what I started with there. So, it kind of makes sense as to why you lose those in positive counts. All right. Anyway, what you're probably concerned the burn cards is the opposite. Hopefully, you held onto your count that there. We have 0 1 2 3 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, D1, 0, 1, 2, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, D1, 0, 1, 2, 1, 0, We needed a count of plus 1 there at the end and yeah, that's what I had as well. So hopefully your counts were right. Um I think my count was right and again, if you'd like to see a series that does some six-deck counting like this with Otherwise guys, until next time. Remember this is A1 Blackjack.