End Play (blackjack)
A style of playing Blackjack in which the player takes advantage
of his knowledge of the
last un-played cards at the end of the deck. Happens when the
player, through an increase in number of hands at the right
moment and/or card-eating, manages to force the dealer to run
out of cards and deal the rest of the round (or start anew)
from the re-shuffled discards, whose composition is favorable
to the player. Extremely rare now, it was mostly practiced by
self-educated advantage players in the pre-Thorp days, when
single
deck games were often dealt very deeply, if not completely.
Nearly all casinos try to avoid the possibility of end play
by cutting off some of the cards at the end of the deck or the
shoe.
