Advantage player - how one man got a legal edge to take on the casinos

Advantage card players aren’t cheaters, but they hone the sharpest (legal) edge they can, reports Michael Kaplan

On Flamingo Rd in Las Vegas, James Grosjean sat at a steel table outside a Starbucks. In the near distance stood a sign for a local casino, the Palms, where he has been shown the door more than once.

Being run out of casinos is an occupational hazard for Grosjean, a professional gambler who majored in applied math at Harvard and briefly considered careers on Wall Street and in academia.