Movie 21 – True story or fiction? The movie “21” was released on March 28th, 2008 and the movie is fact based on Ben Mezrich’s book “Bringing Down the House” which tells the true story of the real MIT ...

Venture Capital (VC) can be a rewarding place you could invest your money. But nowadays, some are reconsidering whether to invest in VC as an asset class at all. A number of VCs have responded by ...

A young physicist named Ed Thorp first beat blackjack by inventing card counting, then took the same probability logic to ...

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 ...

BLACK HAWK, Colo. (KDVR) — A Georgia blackjack player has filed a federal lawsuit in Colorado claiming he was illegally detained for doing something that’s perfectly legal: counting cards at a casino.

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 ...

Remember the scene in the movie Rain Man where Raymond is coaxed by his unscrupulous brother, Charlie, to count cards at a Vegas black jack table? Charlie: Now casinos have house rules: they don't ...

It turns out you don’t need to be an idiot savant like Dustin Hoffman’s character in Rain Man, or an MIT mathematics prodigy in order to count cards. There’s a relatively simple approach that can give ...

I live about 15 miles from Atlantic City and was surprised to see the iPhone land on the front page of our local newspaper this morning, and not in a good way. The app allows you to improve your ...