“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 ...

The Platinum Hotel , a sleek new boutique property on Flamingo Road just east of the Strip, does not offer its guests a casino. The lack of gaming on site was a significant consideration for Michael ...

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 ...

The members of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s card-counting team say that anybody could learn the system that helped the team take Vegas for millions at the blackjack tables. But Kevin ...

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 ...

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 ...

I don't know what it is, but I LOVE heist movies. I just can't get enough of them. Ocean's 13 was one of the best movies this entire summer, and I'm in the midst of watching The Italian Job again.