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Blackjack Practice

Practice means two things: drills and game play. Practicing in a casino is very expensive. Casino play is not how to practice Blackjack. This is the only type of Blackjack software, in my opinion, that everyone requires - beginner to professional. Yes you can practice with real cards. But there are several problems:

How do you know if you are making mistakes? Humans are much worse than they think at test self-administration. The tester must be an objective second party and software is cheaper than a teacher.
How do you identify weaknesses? This is very easy for software as it can accurately track your every move. If you want the practice to push your speed, you cannot track your progress at the same time yourself.
How do you spot trends? Are you getting better or worse? Are your skills deteriorating in one area? Again, only software can provide accurate answers.
For counters, how do you practice it all at once? Yes you can try counting down a real deck of cards or use flash-cards to test indexes. But, software is the only way to test all of it, counting, adding hands, TC calculation, deck-depth estimation, cover play, betting strategy, indexes, dealer error recognition - all at one time.
How do you grow your skills? You may wish to add more advanced techniques. But, how do you know if you are performing them correctly? How do you know if they are actually helping you?
Speed. Software can present you with situations and score you against those situations vastly faster than you or a human teacher can. By forcing you to move far faster than you ever would in a real casino, you can build your skill level to the point that you will have spare brain time in the casino. This is invaluable as it allows you to chat with the pit bosses and other players and to appear as a normal player - not as a counter. This is where you make the breakthough - allowing card counting to become second nature.
Sheer boredom. Practice with cards becomes dreadfully boring in a very short period of time. The result - you don't spend enough time at it. Practice software, in my not so objective opinion, is an absolute requirement.