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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 and its successors operated successfully from 1979 ...
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 book's main character is Kevin Lewis, an MIT graduate who was invited to join the MIT Blackjack Team in 1993. Lewis was recruited by two of the team's top players, Jason Fisher and Andre Martinez. The team was financed by a colorful character named Micky Rosa, who had organized at least one other team to play the Vegas strip.
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]
21 is a 2008 American heist drama film directed by Robert Luketic and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing.The film is inspired by the story of the MIT Blackjack Team as told in Bringing Down the House, the best-selling 2003 book by Ben Mezrich.
Edward Oakley Thorp (born August 14, 1932) is an American mathematics professor, author, hedge fund manager, and blackjack researcher. He pioneered the modern applications of probability theory, including the harnessing of very small correlations for reliable financial gain.
This was the system used by the MIT Blackjack Team, whose story was in turn the inspiration for the Canadian movie The Last Casino which was later re-made into the Hollywood version 21. [ 13 ] The main advantage of group play is that the team can count several tables while a single back-counting player can usually only track one table.
Jeffrey Ma (born 1973) is a former member of the MIT Blackjack Team in the mid-1990s. [1] He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy.He attended MIT where he graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering in 1994.