Persi Diaconis picks up an ordinary deck of cards, fresh from the box, and writes a word in Magic Marker on one side: RANDOM. He shuffles the deck once. The letters have re-formed themselves into six ...
When a gang of gambling cheats sussed out how to beat the house, they inadvertently highlighted a loophole from a shuffled deck. It took a magician-turned-mathematician to reveal how. The industry ...
The FBI says card shuffling machines were hacked to cheat at poker as part of a major illegal gambling scheme. NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to a reporter who's been covering the machines' vulnerabilities.
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