MIT student Jeff Ma and five of his classmates used fake IDs, disguises and high IQs to outsmart Nevada casinos to the tune of several million dollars in the mid-1990s. When Kevin Spacey read about ...

Counting cards isn’t as tricky as it sounds, JP Massar asserts. It’s not easy, of course, but “it’s not daunting,” he says. Massar, 65, is telling me his life story on a rainy December afternoon at an ...

The MTA has an ace in the hole. Jane Willis, the wife of incoming New York Transit president Richard Davey, is a legendary blackjack card counter who was a member of the infamous MIT blackjack team in ...

Robert Luketic’s card-counting Vegas caper “21” is filled with wicked grins; in fact, entire scenes seem to take place with little happening but people smiling at each other in that naughty, we’re-all ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mike Aponte is a former leader of the MIT blackjack team and a pioneer in card-counting strategies.In the 1990s, he was part of a ...

For most people, gambling is a fast way to lose money while slurping down free (well, sort of free) drinks. But for a few years in the 1980s, Bill Kaplan and a few associates figured out a way to ...

Reading "Bringing Down the House," a team of MIT students who bested casinos by using counting strategies at blackjack, inspired the author to try it himself. (Photo: Mary Rauzi) My career in card ...

Ordinarily a movie about cards wouldn’t be high on my list of priorities, but the premise of “If” looked interesting. Based on Ben Mezrich’s “Bringing Down the House” about how six MIT students ...