Dear Mark: Do card counters today stand a chance against automatic card shuffling machines? – Mel B. Card counters, Mel, have a theoretical advantage between 0.5 and 1.5 percent against the casino.

Yuchun Lee, professional blackjack player and former member of the MIT card counting team, answers the internet's burning questions about casinos and odds. What are the odds of winning a slot machine?

Finally, a useful application for machine vision! Forget all that self-driving nonsense and facial recognition stuff – we’ve finally got an AI that can count cards at the blackjack table. The system ...