• The MIT Blackjack Team was a group of students and ex-students. The students were from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, and other...
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  • 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...
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  • engineer and professional blackjack player and a former member of the MIT Blackjack Team. Irvine was a part of the blackjack team featured in the best selling...
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  • 21 (2008 film) (category Films about blackjack)
    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...
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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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  • Mike Aponte (redirect from MIT Mike)
    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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    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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  • The Last Casino (category Films about blackjack)
    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Jeff Ma (category American blackjack players)
    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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    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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  • 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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  • Jane Willis (category American blackjack players)
    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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  • research and the exploits of professional blackjack players such as Stanford Wong, Ken Uston, and the MIT Blackjack Teams of the 1990s, as well as many others...
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  • Nathaniel Tilton (category American blackjack players)
    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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  • Al Francesco (category American blackjack players)
    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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  • 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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  • Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Jane Willis (partner), member of the MIT Blackjack Team fictionalized in Bringing Down the House and 21 Keith Wofford (partner)...
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    Andy Bloch (category American blackjack players)
    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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  • The Hot Shoe (category Films about blackjack)
    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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  • "[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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    Card counting (category Blackjack)
    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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  • Edward O. Thorp (category American blackjack players)
    is an American mathematics professor, author, hedge fund manager, and blackjack researcher. He pioneered the modern applications of probability theory...
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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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  • 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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    Group James Ma (born 1993), Thai actor Jeff Ma, former member of the MIT Blackjack Team Ma Jianrong, Chinese executive in the textile industry. Chairman of...
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    Jane Willis, a partner at Ropes & Gray and a former member of the MIT Blackjack Team. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Richard A. Davey. Moskowitz...
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  • '88) - NASA astronaut Jane Willis (AB '91, JD '94) - member of the MIT Blackjack Team Tai Tsun Wu (SM '54, PhD '56) - physicist known for significant contributions...
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