The premise of the new gambling movie "21" is simple: Because blackjack is a game played with a finite number of cards, players can train themselves to assign numerical values to each card, count the ...

Colin Jones has toiled in the cacophonous, windowless, artificially lighted corridors of casinos across the country in an effort to beat the house with math. He has worked to master the art of card ...

The film director and movie star Ben Affleck, soon to be featured as Hollywood’s next Batman, did the gambling world a favor last week by placing professional blackjack back in the news. He did so by ...

Finally, a useful application for machine vision! Forget all that self-driving nonsense and facial recognition stuff – we’ve finally got an AI that can count cards at the blackjack table. The system ...