Dear Mark: Do card counters today stand a chance against automatic card shuffling machines? – Mel B. Card counters, Mel, have a theoretical advantage between 0.5 and 1.5 percent against the casino.

While counting cards isn't illegal, it's also not welcomed at any casino. The house is always on the lookout for these ...

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?

QUESTION: How do the gambling industry and individual casinos justify banning card counters? I'm not talking about the use of teamwork or mechanical or electronic manipulation. I just mean someone ...

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 ...

When a gang of gambling cheats sussed out how to beat the house, they inadvertently highlighted a loophole from a shuffled deck. It took a magician-turned-mathematician to reveal how. The industry ...