The Famous Card Counting Experiment

[zengrifter]

Does anyone have more details on this?

The best details would be found in Ken Uston's "One-Third Of A Shoe" IF YOU CAN FIND IT.

The exciting and totally true story of how Ken Uston and his fifth blackjack team beat Resorts International Casino in Atlantic City for $145,000 in nine days in January 1979. This led to Resorts actually barring Ken and his team from playing - an action unprecedented in the short history of Atlantic City gambling.​

 

[jopke]

… Craps was a game played in alleyways, taverns, army barracks, etc.
but the first craps table — (permitting play in underground N Y C casinos) —
was invented in the 1920’s by the criminal genius, Arnold Rothstein.

I thought a guy named John Winn invented the modern craps game. Do you have a source? I'd like to know more.

 

[zengrifter]

I thought a guy named John Winn invented the modern craps game. Do you have a source? I'd like to know more.

Wikipedia -

What was to become the modern American version of the game was brought to New Orleans by Bernard Xavier Philippe de marigny de Mandeville, scion of wealthy Louisiana landowners, a gambler, and politician. There was a flaw in Bernard's version of the game in which players could exploit the casino using fixed dice and taking advantage of the way players can bet with or against the dice thrower. A man named John H. Winn introduced the "don't pass" betting option in order to fix this problem and it is this version of craps that still exists today.​