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HBO Developing Casino Drama ‘Advantage Player’ Starring Riley Keough

Posted on: August 25, 2026, 11:42h.

Last updated on: August 25, 2026, 11:42h.

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Key Points

HBO is developing the casino drama series "Advantage Player," starring and executive-produced by Riley Keough
The show is adapted from professional gambler Gina Fiore’s upcoming memoir about spending 24 years legally beating casinos using skill-based techniques
Fiore rose through the secretive, high-stakes world of advantage play to build and lead teams that extracted millions from casinos using methods like card-counting and hole-carding

HBO is currently developing Advantage Player, a casino drama series set to star Riley Keough, who will also executive-produce the project.

The series is inspired by professional gambler Gina Fiore’s upcoming memoir, Advantage Player: Blackjack, Backrooms, and Beginnings, coming Oct. 27, 2026 from Gillian Flynn Books, an imprint of Zando/Penguin Random House.

Riley Keough, left, is the Emmy-nominated actress who also controls the estate of her grandfather Elvis Presley. She will play a character based on Gina Fiore, right, who wrote a forthcoming book about her lucrative and adventurous career as a casino advantage player. (Images: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty and John Lamparski/Getty)

Fiore — who began her career as an advantage player by teaching herself card-counting while working as a blackjack dealer at an unnamed casino on the Las Vegas Strip — spent 24 years legally beating casinos using skill-based technique rather than luck.

“Gina Fiore has lived a life that seems too extraordinary to be true,” Keough gushed in a blurb she wrote for the book. “Her journey is as gripping as any screenplay because every impossible twist actually happened. Her story is unforgettable — and Advantage Player is one you won’t soon forget.”

Taking ‘Advantage’

Advantage play refers to methods such as card-counting, hole-carding, and other legal strategies that give skilled players a mathematical edge over the house. Fiore — who will also executive-produce the HBO series — rose through this secretive world, eventually building and leading teams that extracted millions from casinos while constantly adapting to increased surveillance, rule changes, and the risk of being identified and banned.

According to Deadline, Keough’s version of Fiore is “a brilliant misfit (who) discovers the secret to beating casinos at their own game.”

The series will be scripted and co-executive-produced by Will Graham, who also worked with Keough on Prime Video’s limited series Daisy Jones & the Six, for which both earned Emmy nominations.

Corey Levitan joined Casino.org in 2022 after a long career covering Las Vegas. He currently covers entertainment, dining and gaming news in Las Vegas.

Corey spent six years covering the Vegas Strip for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, where he also wrote the most popular humor column in the city’s history. (For “Fear and Loafing,” he tried out 176 Vegas jobs, including poker player, blackjack dealer and Follie Bergere dancer.)

Corey has won more than 100 local, state and national awards for his journalism, which has also appeared in Rolling Stone, New York Magazine and the New York Post.

Corey is a New York native whose hobbies include playing guitar, trying to be a better husband, and arguing with strangers on Facebook.

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