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2. MIT Blackjack Team - Wikipedia

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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 ...

3. Colin Jones (blackjack player) - Wikipedia

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   Colin Jones is an American blackjack card-counting expert, teacher, and entrepreneur. He was a founder and manager of The Church Team, a successful blackjack card-counting team based in Seattle, Washington, which won approximately 3.2 million dollars from casinos between 2006 and 2011. [1] Jones is featured prominently in the 2011 award-winning ...

4. Bringing Down the House (book) - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

5. Card counting - Wikipedia

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   The primary goal of a card counting system is to assign point values to each card that roughly correlate to the card's "effect of removal" or EOR (that is, the effect a single card has on the house advantage once removed from play), thus enabling the player to gauge the house advantage based on the composition of cards still to be dealt.

6. Edward O. Thorp - Wikipedia

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   Edward Oakley Thorp (born August 14, 1932) is an American mathematics professor, author, hedge fund manager, and blackjack researcher. He pioneered the modern applications of probability theory, including the harnessing of very small correlations for reliable financial gain. Thorp is the author of Beat the Dealer, which mathematically proved ...

7. Ken Uston - Wikipedia

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   Ken Uston. Ken Uston (January 12, 1935 – September 19, 1987) was an American blackjack player, strategist and author, credited with popularizing the concept of team play at blackjack. [2] During the early to mid-1970s he gained widespread notoriety for perfecting techniques to do team card counting in numerous casinos worldwide, earning ...

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   Down Under Blackjack. Why guess when you can see the dealer?s down card? The hit casino game is now available online! By Masque Publishing. Advertisement.

9. Blackjack - Wikipedia

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   Pontoon, twenty-one, Siebzehn und Vier, vingt-et-un. Blackjack (formerly black jack and vingt-un) is a casino banking game. [1]: 342 It is the most widely played casino banking game in the world. It uses decks of 52 cards and descends from a global family of casino banking games known as "twenty-one".