Colin Jones has toiled in the cacophonous, windowless, artificially lighted corridors of casinos across the country in an effort to beat the house with math. He has worked to master the art of card ...

Card counting in blackjack is a legal yet contentious strategy that uses mental tracking of cards to shift the odds toward the player. While it doesn’t break gambling laws, casinos see it as a profit ...

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 ...

Editor’s Note: The following article is reprinted from the Today @ PC World blog at PCWorld.com. A new card counting program in the iTunes App Store may be illicitly helping gamblers beat the casinos ...

Update 4:19 pm: This story has been modified to include reaction from the creator of the card-counting iPhone app. Since the July 2008 launch of the App Store, Apple has maintained a sort of moral ...

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 ...

The gambling pleasure, which is a very popular game in the world and which is called “Blackjack” and is well known and popular in the world. These are resourceful, such as blackjack cardholders, as ...