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 ...

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 ...