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  2. MIT Blackjack Team - Wikipedia

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    Blackjack team play was first written about by Ken Uston, an early member of Al Francesco's teams along with Bill Erb and Blair Hull. Uston's book on blackjack team play, Million Dollar Blackjack, was published shortly before the founding of the first MIT team. Kaplan enhanced Francesco's team methods and used them for the MIT team.

  3. Bringing Down the House (book) - Wikipedia

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    Bill Kaplan founded and led the MIT Blackjack Team in the 1980s and co-managed the team with Massar and Chang from 1992 to 1993, during which time Jeff Ma joined the then nearly 80 person team. [3] [4] Chang has questioned the book's veracity, telling The Boston Globe , "I don't even know if you want to call the things in there exaggerations ...

  4. Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (blackjack) - Wikipedia

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    Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse is the name given by gambling authors [1] [2] to the four U.S. Army engineers who first discovered in the 1950s the best playing strategy in the casino game of Blackjack that can be formulated on the basis of the player's and the dealer's cards. The so-called Basic Strategy, which was subsequently refined through ...

  5. The Last Casino - Wikipedia

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    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 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 successful ...

  6. William Kaplan - Wikipedia

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    Kaplan was a professor at the University of Ottawa Law School from 1989–2001, and also worked during that time in private practice as a mediator and investigator. He is currently in private practice in Toronto, Ontario. His awards from the Law Society of Upper Canada have included the Law Society Medal in 1999, and an Honorary L.L.D. in 2002.

  7. Talk:MIT Blackjack Team - Wikipedia

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    In actuality you will usually either push, lose $100, or gain $100 (or a related value - some multiple of $100 in the case of doubling down, splitting hands, or dealing with a blackjack)...but averaged over many hands in many situations over time you expect to win about $2. This can be turned into an hourly earnings rate if you know how fast ...

  8. Blackjack Hall of Fame - Wikipedia

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    Don Schlesinger, 2015, author, researcher, columnist, editor of numerous blackjack books, and long-time Blackjack player. Bill Benter, 2016, blackjack team manager and horse-racing expert. One of the highest earning gamblers in history. Don Johnson, 2017, beat the Atlantic City casinos for over $15 million. Wally Simmons, 2018, blackjack and ...

  9. Edward O. Thorp - Wikipedia

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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 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 ...

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