Want to play chess in Afghanistan? Too bad. The Taliban have suspended the game for fear that it could be used to encourage betting. That’s not all. Would-be gambling magnates in Toronto were brought ...

MIT students and casino mathematics come together in a story about strategy, probability, and card-counting style thinking.

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 ...

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 me, this inspiration stemmed from the movie “21,” a dramatized but invigorating tale of the real-life MIT blackjack team, which applied card-counting techniques to beat casinos around the world.

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?