Playing: Head-On or Heads-Up
Realize that anyone playing “head-on” or “heads-up” (playing one-on-one) with the dealer normally looks at all the cards being dealt— simply because all the cards dealt are only your own and the dealer’s. So playing head-on by its very nature negates the need to scan the table for the purposes of keeping the running count. Playing head-on, then, in this sense inherently offers a bit of camouflage just by you being the only player at the table.
The downside, however, is that many card counters like to play head-on due to the number of hands per hour it’s possible to log. Once again, a tradeoff depending on how you look at it.
