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 ...

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 ...

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 ...