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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 through the beginning of the 21st century. Many other blackjack teams around the world have been formed with the goal of beating the casinos.

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Busting Vegas

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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...

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Mike Aponte

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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...

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Semyon Dukach

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professional blackjack player with the MIT Blackjack Team. He played with Strategic Investments and later was one of the founding members and team leaders...

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Traditions and student activities at MIT

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activities, organizations, and athletics that contribute to MIT's distinct culture. MIT has relatively few formal traditions, compared to many other...

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Blackjack Hall of Fame

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casinos and the Griffin Agency. John Chang, 2007, former manager of the MIT Blackjack Team; was the basis for the Mickey Rosa character in the movie 21. Roger...

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Breaking Vegas

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the MIT Blackjack Team, written and directed by Bruce David Klein and produced by Atlas Media Corp. The episode "Professor Blackjack" is about MIT professor...

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The Last Casino

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The Last Casino draws heavily from the story of the MIT Blackjack Team. The MIT Blackjack Team was a group of students from Massachusetts Institute of...

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Jon Hirschtick

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manager at the MIT CADLab. He was a player and instructor on the MIT Blackjack Team featured in the movies 21 and Breaking Vegas. Hirschtick founded the...

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Jane Willis

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recruited into the MIT Blackjack Team.[citation needed] The book Bringing Down the House and the film 21 are based upon the team's success. Willis is...

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Jeff Ma

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is a former member of the MIT Blackjack Team in the mid-1990s. He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy. He attended MIT where he graduated with a degree...

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SolidWorks

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member of the MIT Blackjack Team to set up the company. Initially based in Concord, Massachusetts, United States, Hirschtick gathered a team of engineers...

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Nathaniel Tilton

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private instructional program offered by Semyon Dukach, the former MIT Blackjack team manager who was featured in Busting Vegas. There, Tilton also met...

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The Hot Shoe

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the MIT Blackjack Team, casino employees and gambling authors, and combined it with behind-the-scenes footage of casino surveillance rooms and the MIT team...

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Al Francesco

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American blackjack player and gambling strategist. Considered to be “The Godfather of Blackjack”, Francesco is recognized as the creator of the team play...

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World Series of Blackjack

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Aponte, a former member of the MIT Blackjack Team, won the Season 1 championship and $100,000. The World Series of Blackjack Tournament was held at Golden...

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Andy Bloch

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engineering degrees from MIT and a JD from Harvard Law School. While studying at MIT, Bloch became part of the MIT blackjack team, featured in the book Bringing...

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Press Your Luck scandal

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"[n]either the scandal nor Larson ever hit critical mass a la [the MIT Blackjack Team] and Charles Van Doren". Speaking on Larson's win the same year, the...

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Griffin Investigations

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subscribing casinos. Griffin Investigations was instrumental in ending the MIT Blackjack Team’s winning streak,[citation needed] after a Griffin investigator purchased...

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Card counting

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growth of blackjack teams (Hyland's team and the first MIT team were formed in Atlantic City shortly after the publication of Million Dollar Blackjack) and...

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Peter Steinfeld

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book Bringing Down the House, about the feats of the card counting MIT Blackjack Team, into the film 21, which was released in 2008. Before filming began...

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Bill Aulet

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Globe. "Bill Aulet | HuffPost". HuffPost. "Xconomy: 6 Reasons Why the MIT Blackjack Team Became Entrepreneurs". June 27, 2013. Three case studies Archived...

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