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The MIT Blackjack Team was a group of students and ex-students. The students were from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, and other leading colleges; they used card counting techniques and more sophisticated strategies to beat casinos at blackjack worldwide.
The team was financed by a colorful character named Micky Rosa, who had organized at least one other team to play the Vegas strip. This new team was the most profitable yet. Personality conflicts and card counting deterrent efforts at the casinos eventually ended this incarnation of the MIT Blackjack Team.
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 .
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]
Irvine was one of the members of a team of MIT students that won millions at blackjack tables around the world by counting cards. 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]
While studying at MIT, Bloch became part of the MIT blackjack team, featured in the book Bringing Down the House. [2] Bloch said he has made up to $100,000 in one session while playing blackjack. [3] He was one of the members of the team to play in Monte Carlo as detailed in Ben Mezrich's Busting Vegas. [4]
A blackjack game in progress. Card counting is a blackjack strategy used to determine whether the player or the dealer has an advantage on the next hand. Card counters try to overcome the casino house edge by keeping a running count of high and low valued cards dealt.
Busting Vegas (stylized as Busting Vega$) is a 2005 book by Ben Mezrich about a group of MIT card counters and blackjack players commonly known as the MIT Blackjack Team.The subtitle of the original, hardcover edition was The MIT Whiz Kid Who Brought the Casinos to Their Knees, [1] but the subtitle of the subsequent paperback editions was A True Story of Monumental Excess, Sex, Love, Violence ...