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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.
A variety of stories about a few of the players from the MIT Blackjack Team formed the basis of The New York Times best-selling Bringing Down the House, written by Ben Mezrich. While originally marketed as nonfiction, Mezrich later admitted characters and stories in the book were mostly fictitious and composites of players and stories he had ...
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 ...
Mezrich is best known for his first non-fiction work, Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions.This book tells the story of a group of students from Massachusetts Institute of Technology who bet on blackjack games using a sophisticated card counting system, earning millions of dollars at casinos in Las Vegas and other gambling centers in the ...
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.
Emma Stone, Nathan Fielder and A24 to Produce ‘Checkmate,’ Ben Mezrich’s Chess Scandal Story. Angelique Jackson. May 2, 2024 at 12:47 AM.
David Irvine (born 1970) is an engineer and professional blackjack player and a former member of the MIT Blackjack Team. [1] Irvine was a part of the blackjack team featured in the best selling book, Bringing Down the House, by Ben Mezrich. [2] Irvine was one of the members of a team of MIT students that won millions at blackjack tables around ...