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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's principal leader, Micky Rosa is a composite character based primarily on Bill Kaplan, JP Massar, and John Chang. [1] Bill Kaplan founded and led the MIT Blackjack Team in the 1980s and co-managed the team with Massar and Chang from 1992 to 1993, during which time Jeff Ma joined the then nearly 80 person 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. He is the basis for one of the main characters, Jason Fisher, in the book, Bringing Down the House , by Ben Mezrich , [ 1 ] which inspired the motion picture, 21 .
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.
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 ...
While attending MIT, Dukach was trained as a player on the MIT Blackjack team whose exploits were loosely depicted in the Hollywood movie 21. Starting out with Strategic Investments (SI) in 1992, Dukach was a major player on the team.
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]
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.