card counter

American  

noun

Blackjack.

1. a casino player who memorizes or records which cards have been played in previous hands in order to calculate the odds on receiving winning cards or combinations from those remaining to be dealt, the practice often being held as illegal.

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Example Sentences

"But Lindell - a talented salesman and former professional card counter - sells the lie to this day because the lie sells pillows," Dominion's lawsuit stated.

From Reuters • Oct. 3, 2022

As the titular card counter, Isaac is a gambler who goes by the name William Tell.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2021

Like a card counter, he’d tilted the odds of that game slightly in his favor.

From Slate • Dec. 6, 2016

Matt McGee gives a tour of the new Google Maps, and a card counter develops a Google Glass app to beat the house.

From New York Times • May 28, 2013

At the pigeon-hole that tickets come out of, another person, also in white satin, was ready with a mother-of-pearl ticket, round, like a card counter.

From The Magic World by Millar, H. R. (Harold Robert)