Olaf Vancura
A physicist who turned to the mathematics of casino games: he co-wrote a card-counting system, designed slot and table games, and holds more than 80 U.S. patents in gaming.
By the numbers
80+
U.S. patents in gaming
1992
Ph.D. in physics, Johns Hopkins University
1997
left astrophysics for game design at Mikohn Gaming
1998
Knock-Out Blackjack with Ken Fuchs, Huntington Press
4
books written or edited
Olaf Vancura earned a Ph.D. in physics at Johns Hopkins University and worked as an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. While there he taught a course on the mathematics of gambling at Tufts University. In 1997 he moved into the gaming industry, where he has designed slot and table games, led game development at Mikohn Gaming, Progressive Gaming International and American Gaming Systems, and founded his own game companies. He is the co-author, with Ken Fuchs, of Knock-Out Blackjack.
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