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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you’ve ever watched movies where the gambler stares down the dealer, while looking as smart as they can, chances are that they were counting cards. But what is counting cards all about, and is it ...

Ben Affleck, right, and Justin Timberlake are shown in a scene from 20th Century Fox's "Runner Runner," a film about cheating at online poker. Affleck has been banned from the blackjack tables at Hard ...