There is considerable mystery and confusion online regarding card counting. Much of this is fueled by the movies and Hollywood’s version of reality. Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man, Zach Galifianakis in ...

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For centuries, gamblers have been using various strategies to gain an edge. The desire to beat the odds has remained despite ...

Student coaches on the craft of card counting meet with a group of about a dozen fellow classmates in a crammed Pioneer Hall dorm room once a week — but not for an underground gambling ring. The new ...

In What It’s Like, people tell us, well, what it’s like to have experiences many of us have not even imagined. Card counting is one of those mythical swindles in American mythology. Imagine rolling ...

The premise of the new gambling movie "21" is simple: Because blackjack is a game played with a finite number of cards, players can train themselves to assign numerical values to each card, count the ...

The film director and movie star Ben Affleck, soon to be featured as Hollywood’s next Batman, did the gambling world a favor last week by placing professional blackjack back in the news. He did so by ...

When Ben Affleck was thrown out of a casino in May for allegedly counting cards, it made for good tabloid news. Somehow, though, Affleck doesn’t fit the stereotype of the card counter. Going back to ...