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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Card counting allows players to determine their odds against those of the house depending on the cards that have already been dealt, and to bet big when cards turn in their favor. After the real-life ...

“MIT Mike” Aponte, World Series of Blackjack winner, shows you how to count cards. “MIT Mike” Aponte, World Series of Blackjack winner, shows you how to count cards. As a college senior in the early ...

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 ...

Yuchun Lee, professional blackjack player and former member of the MIT card counting team, answers the internet's burning questions about casinos and odds. What are the odds of winning a slot machine?

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 ...

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 ...