Free while in beta · Founding rate locked for life

Find every leak in your game — before the casino does.

CountLab logs every decision, prices every mistake in EV, and drills your weaknesses until they're gone. The data-driven training inside $400-a-month coaching — as software you can afford. Runs in your browser, works offline, nothing to install.

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Free basic-strategy trainer · no account or card required

⏱ Beat the clock3 hands

Think you know basic strategy?

Three real hands. Eight seconds each.
Most players miss at least one.

What a year of training costs

The capabilities aren't new. The price is.

Hand logging, mistake reports, timed drills — today that tech is bundled into coaching programs and bootcamps, or dumbed into $10 apps that get the count wrong.

Private coachinglogging app not sold separately

$4,800

Vegas bootcampone weekend + travel

$3,000+

Membership courseno hand-level data layer

$397–997

Mobile appsreviews report wrong counts

$0–30

CountLabfull data layer, founding rate

$0–49

Comparisons refer to software capabilities, not coaching or community. Vendor-published prices, August 2026. Basic-strategy trainer is free forever.

Why it works

Built around how the skill actually fails

Anyone can read a chart. Players fail under time pressure, lose the count during hard decisions, and never learn which mistakes bleed money. So that's what we train.

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Timed, always

Accuracy that evaporates at 60 hands per hour isn't accuracy. Every drill is on the clock.

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Leak-level diagnosis

Not “82% overall” — “71% on soft 18 vs 9–A.” Every cell tracked, every error priced in EV.

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Practice that schedules itself

Spaced repetition resurfaces your weakest, most-due skills before they decay. Mastery gates keep you honest.

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Solved for your rules

Deck count, S17/H17, DAS, surrender — an exact solver computes optimal play and your real house edge. Counting, deviations, and combined-load drills included.

Read this before you pay anyone

Card counting is legal, real, and worth about half a percent — with brutal variance. Most games today are not beatable, and knowing which ones aren't is the most valuable skill we teach.

We don't sell winnings, systems, or dreams. We train a skill and measure it honestly. The products that promise more are lying to you.

Straight answers

Questions people actually ask

Is card counting illegal?

No. Counting with your head is legal everywhere in the US — it's just thinking. Casinos can ask skilled players to leave, which is why we also teach game selection and when a game isn't worth playing.

Do I need an app?

No. CountLab is a website — it runs in any modern browser, on your phone or laptop, and keeps working offline after your first visit. Your training data lives on your device.

Do I need to be good at math?

If you can add and subtract 1, you can count. The hard part is doing it fast, under pressure, without dropping strategy — a training problem, and training problems are solvable.

Will this make me money?

Honest answer: probably not, and anyone promising otherwise is selling you something. A skilled counter's edge is ~0.5% with high variance, and most modern games aren't beatable at all. We promise the skill, measured honestly — including the judgment to walk away.

How is this different from the $400 courses?

Those have real strengths — community, credibility, human checkout. What they lack is a modern data layer: hand-level logging, per-cell diagnosis, spaced-repetition scheduling. That's what we build. We compare software, not people.

What does it cost?

Basic-strategy trainer: free forever, no account. The full platform launches at a founding rate under $50/year, locked for as long as you subscribe. Price rises as the product deepens; founding members keep theirs.