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Mike Aponte, also known as MIT Mike, is a professional blackjack player and a former member of the MIT Blackjack Team.Aponte was part of a team of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) students that legally won millions playing blackjack at casinos around the world by counting cards.
The other team was the Reptiles, led by Mike Aponte, Manlio Lopez and Wes Atamian. These teams had various legal structures, and at times million dollar banks and 50+ players. By 2000 the 15+ year reign of the MIT Blackjack Teams came to an end as players drifted into other pursuits.
The story of the MIT Blackjack Team was made into a major motion picture, 21, which was released in theaters on March 28, 2008. [3] In 2004, Irvine co-founded a company called the Blackjack Institute with business partner Mike Aponte that provides instructional products and services on how to win at blackjack.
One of the team leaders , Jason Fisher, is modeled in part after Mike Aponte. After his professional card counting career, Aponte went on to win the 2004 World Series of Blackjack, and started a company called the Blackjack Institute. Mike also has his own blog.
Beginning in 2006, they received additional mentorship from Mike Aponte ("MIT Mike"), another member of the MIT Blackjack team, who was the basis for one of the main characters, Jason Fisher, in Bringing Down the House. Mike Aponte, winner of the World Series of Blackjack, further groomed the pair into world-class players. The meticulous ...
Based on his achievements, Thorp was an inaugural member of the Blackjack Hall of Fame. [14] He also devised the "Thorp count", a method for calculating the likelihood of winning in certain endgame positions in backgammon. [15] Edward O. Thorp's Real Blackjack was published by Villa Crespo Software in 1990. [16]
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Featured players of the Ultimate Blackjack Tour are members of Team UBT, which is made up of poker stars like Johnny Chan, Robert Williamson III, and Phil Laak and professional blackjack players like world champions Ken Einiger and Anthony Curtis, Mike Aponte, James Grosjean, "Hollywood" Dave Stann and Monica Reeves.