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For decades, casinos scoffed as mathematicians and physicists devised elaborate systems to take down the house. Then an unassuming Croatian’s winning strategy forever changed the game.


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Fascinating. Savants who can card count effectively with multiple decks have a knack that 99.9999% of people cannot fathom. The skill of "seeing" the seemingly random movements of the ball on a slightly imbalanced wheel have an even more amazing intuitive grasp of physics.
 
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