When players sit down at a table in a casino, they know that "the house always wins." In other words, even if you hit a lucky streak, in the long run, the casino owners are invariably going to come ...

Tye Sheridan as Cirk and Oscar Isaac as William Tell and Tiffany Haddish as La Linda in The Card Counter. (Universal) After milling around between stolid blockbuster franchises, Oscar Isaac finally ...

Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise in ‘Rain Man’. When players sit down at a table in a casino, they know that “the house always wins.” In other words, even if you hit a lucky streak, in the long run, the ...

But in the late 1950s, four engineers—Roger Baldwin, Wilbert Cantey, Herbert Maisel, and James McDermott—designed a mathematical system to help flip a blackjack player's odds. Known mythically as the ...