Dr. Edward Thorp doesn't look like one of the world's most notorious gamblers. At 79 years old, he sports braces and large, wire-rimmed glasses. But on a recent Saturday night in suburban Las Vegas, ...

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 ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Granted, a trip to Las Vegas isn’t the most reliable way to make a ...

Some of the real pioneers of the hedge fund world got their start at the blackjack tables of Las Vegas. Ed Thorp and Blair Hull are the most prominent examples. It takes skill, discipline and a ...

Update 4:19 pm: This story has been modified to include reaction from the creator of the card-counting iPhone app. Since the July 2008 launch of the App Store, Apple has maintained a sort of moral ...

When Ben Affleck was thrown out of a casino in May for allegedly counting cards, it made for good tabloid news. Somehow, though, Affleck doesn’t fit the stereotype of the card counter. Going back to ...

A new card counting program in the iTunes app store may be illicitly helping gamblers beat the casinos at blackjack. The program is hard to detect, because it runs in “stealth mode” where the app can ...