Las Vegas gambler reveals secret behind staggering $15,000,000 casino winnings
A gambler has opened up about the secret skill that she has been able to use to win millions in Vegas.
Gina Fiore is a professional gambler who has made a whopping $15 million over the course of her career, claiming that she used one trick to give her the edge.
Most of the time when someone is a professional gambler this effectively means a professional poker player, as in poker there is a much larger element of skill than in other casino games, for example roulette.
But in Fiore's case she has made her money not with poker, but with blackjack.
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Some people might be familiar with the practice of 'card counting' in blackjack, where you see what cards have already been played to calculate the likelihood of certain value cards being dealt, but this is not what Fiore does.
Instead, she noticed that around one in 300 blackjack dealers inadvertently reveal a portion of a card which is face down on the table, a number which also gives you a sense of the enormous amount of experience that she has.
Fiore would find these dealers and send her teams of players called 'advantage players' to beat the casinos in a technique which has proven wildly successful.
Since then she has also published a book called Advantage Player: A Memoir of Blackjack, Backrooms, and Beginnings.
Fiore has even since secured a TV deal for an as yet unreleased HBO series based on her life, with Riley Keough, Elvis' granddaughter, signed on to play her in a casting choice very fitting to Vegas.
Speaking to Review Journal, Fiore explained that an 'advantage player' is someone who is a cut above a regular card counter in blackjack.
"Card counting is a very simple thing to do," she said. "There’s a card counter, which they obviously play with an advantage, but anything above that you’re an AP. There’s an advantage player community and it’s very, very small."
But despite her big success, Fiore was very clear that she does not recommend that anyone try to become an advantage player.
"It’s just a hard way to make a living," she said. "I feel like I didn’t really have any other choice."
She explained that it's not just that you have to be good at gambling, but that while most people would view gambling as a fun recreational activity for people who make a living that way it can be very antisocial.
"In 2026, you can absolutely still make money as a gambler playing with an edge," she said. "But it’s definitely hard to have a normal life. I had no social life for a very long time. It’s very isolating."
This would include spending as much as 16 hours a day trying to identify dealers who had that key problem that she could exploit.
Fiore moved to Las Vegas when she was 14 years old, and her mum had worked as a dealer meaning that she had grown up around gambling, before becoming a dealer herself.
If dealers accidentally exposing cards is one secret, another is Fiore having grown up around gambling, and worked as a dealer giving her insider experience.
"A couple of years after that, somebody at my job was quitting to count cards for a living and it was a light bulb moment for me, because my mom had told me about card counting when I was a teenager," she said.
After studying, she eventually learned how to 'hole cards' as well as sorting cards, enabling her to quit her job.
Kit Roberts