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2. MIT Blackjack Team - Wikipedia

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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.

3. Colin Jones (blackjack player) - Wikipedia

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   Colin Jones is a 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. Card counting - Wikipedia

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   Design and selection of systems. 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.

5. 21 (2008 film) - Wikipedia

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   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 students who become trained to be ...

6. The Card Counter - Wikipedia

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   The Card Counter. The Card Counter is a 2021 American crime drama film written and directed by Paul Schrader. It stars Oscar Isaac, Tiffany Haddish, Tye Sheridan, and Willem Dafoe. Martin Scorsese is an executive producer. It had its world premiere at the 78th Venice International Film Festival on September 2, 2021. [3]

7. Breaking Vegas - Wikipedia

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   The episode "Professor Blackjack" is about MIT professor Edward O. Thorp's (portrayed by Jonathan Dickson) computer-based research on the Kelly criterion that was applied in real Vegas casinos in the form of computer aided card-counting schemes with very successful results. Manny Kimmell (portrayed by Peter Salzer), a known mob associate ...

8. Church Team - Wikipedia

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   The Church Team was a card counting blackjack team that operated from 2005 to 2011. It was started and managed by Ben Crawford and Colin Jones. Over the years the team included approximately 30 investors, 40 players, and various levels of managers and trainers. The team was primarily based out of the Seattle area but had almost 15 players from ...

9. Caught Up in You - Wikipedia

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   Caught Up in You. " Caught Up in You " is a song by American Southern rock band 38 Special. It's the first single released from their 1982 studio album, Special Forces and their first #1 on the US Billboard Top Tracks rock chart. It became one of the band's two top-ten pop hits, reaching #10 on the US Billboard Hot 100. [2]