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I can almost guarantee that any site that offers "live blackjack" over the internet is setup so even the best possible counting system would not make a profit. There are many detailed rules to blackjack (on splitting, doubling, etc) that can have a relatively big effect on the overall edge the house has over the player. It's pretty easy to change these rules to make the house edge enough to where no amount of counting can reverse that edge, all the big casinos on the strip do this. Some now use continuous shuffle machines and/or single deck games that pay 6:5 for blackjack - stuff like this makes the games pretty much unbeatable.

Shuffle tracking may still be feasible, but I doubt the video is detailed enough to make this a real possibility.

Also - if it's live blackjack, do they show you everyone else's cards at the table? If not, I find it extremely hard to believe they have a live dealer for each player. I would bet that these systems use pre-recorded video of some kind, and maybe some pre-recorded close-ups of the actual cards or something (which would make this no different from regular online blackjack, continuous shuffle rngs). Otherwise this doesn't make much sense from a financial point of view.