Quote Originally Posted by lothia View Post
Nope never saw it. Well I have not seen that movie, but you know the basis of card counting is to know when the dealer is most likely to bust right? Well splitting by itself someone in card counting almost never does. But it is not a bad idea to do IMO. You have a better chance to get a 10 card and another 10 card then getting any other card (not combined but just that point value vs any other single point value) But most will say never split.
The odds of getting a 10 card, and then another 10 card after already having 2 10 cards with one deck and no other cards in play are as follows:

14/50 * 13/49 = .07242587. That's a 7% chance of getting two ten cards if no other cards are in play. Odds change though.