件Stories & Incidents

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

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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