MIT student Jeff Ma and five of his classmates used fake IDs, disguises and high IQs to outsmart Nevada casinos to the tune of several million dollars in the mid-1990s. When Kevin Spacey read about ...

Robert Luketic’s card-counting Vegas caper “21” is filled with wicked grins; in fact, entire scenes seem to take place with little happening but people smiling at each other in that naughty, we’re-all ...

The MTA has an ace in the hole. Jane Willis, the wife of incoming New York Transit president Richard Davey, is a legendary blackjack card counter who was a member of the infamous MIT blackjack team in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

Counting cards isn’t as tricky as it sounds, JP Massar asserts. It’s not easy, of course, but “it’s not daunting,” he says. Massar, 65, is telling me his life story on a rainy December afternoon at an ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yuchun Lee, professional blackjack player and former member of the MIT card counting team, answers the internet's burning questions about casinos and odds. What are the odds of winning a slot machine?

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 ...