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 ...

When Nat Turner was about 5 years old, his father gave him a 1975 Hank Aaron baseball card. Thus began an obsession with trading cards for a variety of sports, with his interest expanding from ...

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 ...

These were cheaters who broke the law.Card counters, while not welcome in casinos, operate within the law. They don’t influence the game’s natural outcome; they just calculate the probability of cards ...

Dave Stann doesn’t deny that he’s a card counter. He’s a Mensa member who has used his brains to determine when the odds are in his favor, not the casino’s. Stann says his rare skills have earned him ...

The Montgomery County mortgage lender arrived at the Horseshoe Casino Baltimore with money clips holding 50 neatly folded $100 bills. But after the player spent 80 minutes at a blackjack table, a ...

This question originally appeared on Quora. Answer by Ben Mezrich, New York Times best-selling author of Seven Wonders, Bringing Down the House, and the book that became The Social Network: ...

A high-rolling blackjack player, Justin Mills, said a driver in a luxury car hired by Maryland Live picked him up from his Silver Spring home on Feb. 20 to usher him to the casino at Arundel Mills ...

LAS VEGAS — Moments after Kevin Lewis sat down last summer at a high stakes blackjack table inside an Atlantic City casino, the pit boss got the word: Lewis was a card counter. Soon the “bad news guys ...