Ken Uston is the name by who it’s known one of the greatest blackjack players ever.

His real name is Kenneth Senzo Usui. He was born in the United States in 1935, son to a Japanese father and American mother.

With an IQ of 169, he became a mathematical genius at Yale University. After graduating he worked in a large company in San Francisco, which he abandoned to join the blackjack team of Al Francesco, a legendary player who became Ken’s teacher.

Uston’s goal was to become the best blackjack player in history. Based on mathematical algorithms and card counting methods, he found out the way to win millions of dollars in a short time. But then, after some rivalries emerged between him and Francesco, they were discovered and banned from more than 7 casinos, resulting in a lawsuit for more than 80 million dollars.

In 1976, after gambling was authorized in Atlantic City, Ken formed his own team and achieved further millionaire gains. But again they were discovered and are banned from casinos around the world.

But Uston was not content with this determination, and appealed to justice by starting a lawsuit against casinos.

Thanks to this demand, the Supreme Court of the State of New Jersey decided that card counting could not be prohibited since the resulting advantage was obtained by means of the human mind without the use of machinery, electronics or any other aids.

In September of 1987, he was found dead in a rented apartment in Paris. Though the listed cause of disease was heart failure, there is no certainty as to whether this was the real cause. This man is considered as the best player in the history of blackjack by most professionals in the art of card-counting.