件Stories & Incidents

Famous runs, collapses and cons — what really happened, with the math that decided it.

件 STORIES & INCIDENTS

The statistician who read scratch tickets without scratching them: Mohan Srivastava and the singleton flaw

2026-10-13 · 8 MIN件 STORIES & INCIDENTS

The Stake hack: $41 million in nine hours, and the vault that provably fair does not cover

2026-10-17 · 8 MIN件 STORIES & INCIDENTS

Ippei Mizuhara: 19,000 bets, a 12% loss rate, and the bankroll that was never his

2026-10-18 · 8 MIN件 STORIES & INCIDENTS

Jontay Porter: the under only the player can guarantee, and the bets the NBA just removed

2026-10-19 · 8 MIN件 STORIES & INCIDENTS

Don Johnson: $15 million from Atlantic City, and the 20% rebate that flipped the edge

2026-10-21 · 9 MIN件 STORIES & INCIDENTS

Hamster Kombat: 300 million players, a 60-billion-token airdrop, and the month they left

2026-10-22 · 8 MIN件 STORIES & INCIDENTS

Uston v. Resorts: the 1982 ruling that a casino cannot bar a card counter

2026-09-16 · 9 MIN件 STORIES & INCIDENTS

Tommy Carmichael and the light wand: what a slot sensor could not see

2026-09-11 · 8 MIN件 STORIES & INCIDENTS

The Ritz laser scanner: £1.3 million in two nights, and why it was not a crime

2026-09-11 · 8 MIN件 STORIES & INCIDENTS

Wheel bias: the two men who beat roulette by writing numbers down, and why a court said it was legal

2026-09-09 · 9 MIN件 STORIES & INCIDENTS

Edge sorting: how Phil Ivey read the backs of the cards, and why two courts called it cheating

2026-09-03 · 10 MIN件 STORIES & INCIDENTS

The superuser: when the house could see your cards

2026-08-31 · 10 MIN件 STORIES & INCIDENTS

The auditor was the attack: Ronald Harris and the slot machine he was paid to check

2026-08-28 · 9 MIN件 STORIES & INCIDENTS

The night black came up twenty-six times: Monte Carlo, 1913

2026-08-07 · 7 MIN件 STORIES & INCIDENTS

The Run: how Archie Karas turned $50 into $40 million — and why he had to lose it

2026-07-24 · 9 MIN件 STORIES & INCIDENTS

The students who beat the house: how the MIT Blackjack Team ran counting as a business

2026-07-24 · 10 MIN

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