Andy Bloch

It's like the money is just sitting there in casinos everywhere all over the world, huge stacks of chips and $100 bills waiting for you to take them home.

No job, bad economy.

If Blackjack is beatable, your problems are solved.

Today on our program, we watch people run after that dream, including some fine, upright, God-fearing people, including Robin and me.

Stay with us and good luck with that ace.

Okay, so when Andy Block says that you can beat the casinos, he is talking specifically about counting cards to change the odds.

The mathematics of counting cards was nailed down in the 1950s and 60s.

There is a way to count cards that definitively

gives you an edge over the house.

And you don't need to be a rain man or have a photographic memory to pull this off.

A normal person can do it.

So Robin and I decided that we wanted to learn.

And I could pretend right now that there is a high-minded journalistic reason for this.

You know, we wouldn't really understand what Blackjack is all about if we didn't dive in ourselves.

That would be a lie.

We'd both heard of card counting.

We wanted to try.

For the same reasons that anybody does, we thought it would be so awesome to beat Blackjack.

And the thought that we would be doing it during our jobs, that we would be in a casino when the rest of the staff was back at the office editing and writing.

Amazing.