The MIT Blackjack Team: When Math Beat Vegas
How a group of college students used mathematics to win millions from casinos—and how the industry fought back with facial recognition and blacklists.
Read more →Strange wins, infamous scandals, and the hidden world behind the casino floor. Stories that entertain, inform, and surprise.
In 2003, a software engineer from Los Angeles hit the largest slot machine jackpot in history at the Excalibur Casino. What happened next reads like a thriller: legal battles, media frenzy, and a winner who chose to disappear from public life entirely. Where is he now, and what does his story tell us about sudden wealth?
Read the full story →How a group of college students used mathematics to win millions from casinos—and how the industry fought back with facial recognition and blacklists.
Read more →From RFID chips to facial recognition to behavioral analysis, modern casinos know more about their guests than most people realize.
Read more →Not all casino bans are about cheating. Some are about bad luck, superstitions, or behavior so strange that even Vegas couldn't handle it.
Read more →They never cheated at a single game. Instead, they built fake identities with perfect credit scores and simply walked out with $37 million.
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