Do you know any magic tricks with cards? If you do, you probably have at least one trick where you know the card at the bottom of the deck. When the selected card is placed on top of the deck, the deck can be cut to place the known bottom card right on top of the unknown selected card.

Ace tracking in Blackjack relies on the same principal. Say that you have watched the dealer scoop up two aces from the table to the discard pile and place a six of hearts and two of clubs on top of them.

A key point is notice how the cards are removed the table. Generally a dealer will scoop the discards from the table in their face-up positions. You would then keep track of what two cards went underneath the face-up aces. These are the cards that will wind on top of the face-down aces in the discard pile

When the shoe is shuffled, you count on these four cards remaining together in the shuffled shoe. Then, you see the six of hearts and two of clubs played again, and you know the two aces are about to follow. Assuming you are in a position to receive an ace or two on the next hand, you bet the maximum bet.

You increase your bet to the maximum when you are expecting an ace. An ace as your first card gives you are 52 percent advantage over the house. 52 percent is a staggering advantage.

Statistically ace tracking is more profitable than card counting. It offers a higher advantage. It also is relatively new, while card counting has been around for 50 or so years. Ace tracking offers you the chance to place a maximum bet at times when a card count may be in the houses favor, thus leading the casino to ignore you.

Ace tracking only works for physical casinos, not virtual ones. In a virtual casino or a computerized blackjack game the shuffle is a more random event. There is no card clumping which would occur with a physical shoe of cards. Without clumping, the premise of ace tracking becomes invalid.