An Advantage Player uses legal methods to gain an advantage against the bank. Usually, the term is used in banker games such as Roulette or baccarat. Although such an advantage player basically acts legally, the casinos naturally try to exclude successful advantage players from the game with appropriate countermeasures, for example by blocking them.
An Advantage Player has a mathematical advantage over the house in Blackjack by using various methods such as card counting or hole carding. Nowadays, casinos try to prevent an advantage player from successfully participating in the game with appropriate countermeasures. The countermeasures include, for example, the imposition of individual betting limits or simple exclusion from the game. At this point, it should be noted once again that an Advantage Player does nothing illegal. Nevertheless, Casino operators naturally try to exclude the player from the game.
To this day, experts disagree on whether it is possible to act successfully as an Advantage Player in other games as well. Authors Frank Scoblete and Standford Wong have found that by placing and rolling the dice, players can change the odds in the craps game accordingly to gain an advantage.