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The newly capitalized "bank" of the MIT Blackjack Team started on 1 August 1980. The investment stake was $89,000, with both outside investors and players putting up the capital. Ten players, including Kaplan, Massar, Jonathan, Goose, and "Big Dave" (aka "coach", to distinguish from the other Dave from the first round) played on this bank.
ISBN. 1-4176-6563-7. Followed by. Busting Vegas. Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions is a 2003 book by Ben Mezrich about a group of MIT card counters commonly known as the MIT Blackjack Team. Though the book is classified as non-fiction, The Boston Globe alleges that the book contains ...
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. He is the basis for one of the main characters, Jason ...
Box office. $159.8 million. 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. IMDb offers a brief summary of the film: "21 is about six MIT ...
The Hot Shoe is a 2004 documentary film which also reveals the history and development of card counting. [1] Director David Layton interviewed current and former card counters, including members of 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 preparing to hit the tables.
Hirschtick was director of engineering at Computervision from 1991–1993, [2] and a manager at the MIT CADLab. He was a player and instructor on the MIT Blackjack Team [3][4] featured in the movies 21 and Breaking Vegas. [5][6] Hirschtick founded the SolidWorks Corporation in 1993 using $1 million he made while a member of the MIT Blackjack ...
The Last Casino draws heavily from the story of the MIT Blackjack Team. [3] The MIT Blackjack Team was a group of students from Massachusetts Institute of Technology who were trained by Bill Kaplan. [4] Kaplan delayed his entrance to Harvard University because he believed he could create a mathematics model that would assist him in being ...
The Barona Casino awards to each inductee a permanent lifetime comp for full room, food, and beverage, in exchange for each member’s agreement never to play on Barona’s tables. [1] In winter 2002, a diverse selection of 21 blackjack experts, authors, and professional players were nominated for membership in the Blackjack Hall of Fame.