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 ...

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 ...

Nevada gaming authorities have warned casinos to watch for blackjack players using an iPhone application to count cards. In a memorandum that the state’s gaming control board circulated to casinos ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A blackjack player from Georgia allegedly found himself detained at Ameristar Casino in Black Hawk for the gambling practice of card counting, according to ...

Ben Affleck, right, and Justin Timberlake are shown in a scene from 20th Century Fox's "Runner Runner," a film about cheating at online poker. Affleck has been banned from the blackjack tables at Hard ...