There is considerable mystery and confusion online regarding card counting. Much of this is fueled by the movies and Hollywood’s version of reality. Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man, Zach Galifianakis in ...

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 card-counting team that won millions of dollars at major U.S. casinos ...

The movie "21" focuses on MIT students who count cards during blackjack games. Beverly Griffin, a card-counting expert in Las Vegas, tells how she catches people in the act.

When players sit down at a table in a casino, they know that "the house always wins." In other words, even if you hit a lucky streak, in the long run, the casino owners are invariably going to come ...