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>counting cards is legal in Atlantic City, but if they suspect you of it they'll shuffle every hand or not let you change the size of your bet.

The fact that there's something to "suspect you of" is the whole problem. Doing the same (counting cards) in poker is explicitly encouraged, and the ability to know what cards remain in the deck is highly prized.

Blackjack is just not a very well-designed game.

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Counting cards in poker? Say what? The deck is shuffled between every hand.

Unless you're referring to the basic skill of determining odds to make a certain hand based on your hole cards and the common cards?

That's true for hold'em, but in stud variants you need to keep track of the cards held or folded by other players.

But that's a very different skill from counting cards.

It's the same idea: predict future draws based on used cards.

In one you have you remember the attributes of the cards in the other you just have to maintain a running total. They are very different skills.

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