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Have you ever counted cards properly, and if so did memory tricks actually help? I can only imagine it complicating what are frankly easy-to-remember tasks.


Card counting in the blackjack sense, not really. That's just reading the cards and adjusting.

That being said, in other games it can be very helpful - remembering poker hands, etc...




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