picks Secrets of a Vegas high-roller suite from its manager David Pescovitz

happy mutants MIT has an open course in winning at Texas Hold 'Em Cory Doctorow

Science New gamblers who see a short video about slot-machine psychology don't get tricked Cory Doctorow

Business How Claude Shannon used information theory to cheat at Vegas roulette Cory Doctorow

trump Bet on what will Trump ban during his first term Mark Frauenfelder

Business Russia's slot-machine bans let criminals buy machines on the cheap and reverse-engineer them Cory Doctorow

AI Libratus poker AI beats several of the world's best players Andrea James

Business Judge rules that winning casino baccarat by taking note of asymmetries in card-backs is cheating Cory Doctorow

picks Woman wins $43 million on a slot machine, receives steak dinner instead of cash jackpot Mark Frauenfelder

sports The Fantasy Sports Gamble: Frontline and NYT online sports betting exposé Xeni Jardin

gambling I've played the Powerball simulator for 1,092 years and have lost 91% of my money Mark Frauenfelder

History New Zealand's lost colossus: all-mechanical racetrack oddsmaking computer Cory Doctorow

offworld The occult gambling game giving out amulets of real gold Laura Hudson