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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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"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

These images are long-ago memories that continue to haunt Isaac’s character — he’s the card counter of the title, a professional gambler who calls himself William Tell.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2021

“Lindell — a talented salesman and former professional card counter — sells the lie to this day because the lie sells pillows,” Dominion said in the filing.

From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2021

Like a card counter, he was playing a game of chance.

From Slate ● Dec. 6, 2016

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 H. R. (Harold Robert) Millar

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