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MIT Blackjack Team

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The MIT Blackjack Team was a group of students and ex-students from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard Business School, Harvard University, and other leading colleges who used card counting techniques and more sophisticated strategies to beat casinos at blackjack worldwide. [1]

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Andy Bloch

Andrew Elliot Bloch (born June 1, 1969 in New Haven, Connecticut) is a professional poker player.

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Artistic license

Artistic license (also known as art license, historical license, dramatic license, poetic license, narrative license, licentia poetica, creative license, or simply license) is a colloquial term, sometimes a euphemism, used to denote the distortion of fact, alteration of the conventions of grammar or language, or rewording of pre-existing text made by an artist in the name of art.

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Atlantic City, New Jersey

Atlantic City is a resort city in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States, known for its casinos, boardwalk, and beaches.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Ben Mezrich

Ben Mezrich (born February 7, 1969) is an American author.

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Blackjack

Blackjack, also known as twenty-one, is a comparing card game between usually several players and a dealer, where each player in turn competes against the dealer, but players do not play against each other.

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Blackjack Forum

Blackjack Forum was a trade journal for professional blackjack players, founded in 1981 and published by noted blackjack author Arnold Snyder.

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Breaking Vegas

Breaking Vegas is a television series that premiered on The History Channel in the United States in the spring of 2004.

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Bringing Down the House (book)

Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions is a book by Ben Mezrich about a group of MIT card counters commonly known as the MIT Blackjack Team.

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Bruce David Klein

Bruce David Klein is a producer, director, and writer of television, film, and digital entertainment.

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Cameo appearance

A cameo role or cameo appearance (often shortened to just cameo) is a brief appearance or voice part of a known person in a work of the performing arts, typically unnamed or appearing as themselves.

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Card counting

Card counting is a casino card game strategy used primarily in the blackjack family of casino games to determine whether the next hand is likely to give a probable advantage to the player or to the dealer.

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Casino

A casino is a facility which houses and accommodates certain types of gambling activities.

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Cigar Aficionado

Cigar Aficionado is an American magazine that is dedicated to the world of cigars.

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Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (commonly known as Columbia Pictures and Columbia, formerly CBC Film Sales Corporation, and stylized as COLUMBIA) is an American film studio, production company and film distributor that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures subsidiary of the Japanese multinational conglomerate Sony Corporation.

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Connecticut

Connecticut is the southernmost state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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Croupier

A croupier or dealer is someone appointed at a gambling table to assist in the conduct of the game, especially in the distribution of bets and payouts.

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David Irvine (blackjack player)

David Irvine is an engineer and professional blackjack player and a former member of the MIT Blackjack Team.

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Edward O. Thorp

Edward Oakley Thorp (born August 14, 1932) is an American mathematics professor, author, hedge fund manager, and blackjack player.

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Foxwoods Resort Casino

Foxwoods Resort Casino is a hotel and casino complex owned and operated by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation on their reservation located in Ledyard, Connecticut.

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Game Show Network

Game Show Network (GSN) is an American pay television channel that is a joint venture between Sony Pictures Television (owning a 58% interest) and AT&T (holding 42%).

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Griffin Investigations

Griffin Investigations was once the most prominent group of private investigators specializing in the gaming industry.

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Harvard Business School

Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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HBO

Home Box Office (HBO) is an American premium cable and satellite television network of Home Box Office, Inc..

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Hearsay

Hearsay evidence is "an out-of-court statement offered to prove the truth of matter asserted".

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History (U.S. TV network)

History (originally The History Channel from 1995 to 2008) is a history-based digital cable and satellite television network that is owned by A&E Networks, a joint venture between the Hearst Communications and the Disney–ABC Television Group division of the Walt Disney Company.

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Hole carding

Hole carding refers to obtaining knowledge of cards that are supposed to be hidden from view in card games.

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Jeff Ma

Jeff Ma or Jeffrey Ma was a member of the MIT Blackjack Team in the mid-1990s.

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Jim Sturgess

James Anthony SturgessBirths, Marriages & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1916–2005.; at ancestry.com (born 16 May 1978) is an English actor and singer-songwriter.

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Ken Uston

Ken Uston (January 12, 1935 – September 19, 1987) was a famous blackjack player, strategist, and author, credited with popularizing the concept of team play at blackjack.

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Kevin Spacey

Kevin Spacey Fowler (born July 26, 1959) is an American actor, producer and singer.

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Las Vegas Strip

The Las Vegas Strip is a stretch of South Las Vegas Boulevard in Clark County, Nevada that is known for its concentration of resort hotels and casinos.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

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Mike Aponte

Mike Aponte, also known as MIT Mike, is a professional blackjack player and a former member of the MIT Blackjack Team.

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Mysteries at the Museum

Mysteries at the Museum is an hour-long television program on the Travel Channel which features museum artifacts of unusual or mysterious origins.

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New Jersey Casino Control Commission

The Casino Control Commission is a New Jersey state governmental agency that was founded in 1977 as the state's gaming control board, responsible under the Casino Control Act for licensing casinos in Atlantic City.

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Numbers (TV series)

Numbers (stylized as NUMB3RS) is an American crime drama television series that ran on CBS from January 23, 2005, to March 12, 2010.

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Public speaking

Public speaking (also called oratory or oration) is the process or act of performing a speech to a live audience.

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Rate of return

In finance, return is a profit on an investment.

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Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel

Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel is a monthly sports newsmagazine on HBO that debuted on April 2, 1995.

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Semyon Dukach

Semyon Dukach (born 25 October 1968) is the Founding Partner of One Way Ventures, a venture capital fund that backs immigrant entrepreneurs.

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Shuffle track

Shuffle tracking is an advantage gambling technique where a player tracks certain cards or sequences of cards through a series of shuffles.

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The Last Casino

The Last Casino is a 2004 Canadian film on the subject of card counting.

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The New York Times Best Seller list

The New York Times Best Seller list is widely considered the preeminent list of best-selling books in the United States.

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Travel Channel

Travel Channel (originally The Travel Channel from 1987 to 1998) is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by Discovery, Inc. The channel is headquartered in Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States.

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21 (2008 film)

21 is a 2008 American heist drama film directed by Robert Luketic and starring Jim Sturgess, Kevin Spacey, Laurence Fishburne, Kate Bosworth, Liza Lapira, Jacob Pitts, Aaron Yoo, and Kieu Chinh.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Blackjack_Team

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