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The newly capitalized "bank" of the MIT Blackjack Team started on 1 August 1980. The investment stake was $89,000, with both outside investors and players putting up the capital. Ten players, including Kaplan, Massar, Jonathan, Goose, and "Big Dave" (aka "coach", to distinguish from the other Dave from the first round) played on this bank.
Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions is a 2003 book by Ben Mezrich about a group of MIT card counters commonly known as the MIT Blackjack Team. Though the book is classified as non-fiction, The Boston Globe alleges that the book contains significant fictional elements, that many of the key ...
Busting Vegas (stylized as Busting Vega$) is a 2005 book by Ben Mezrich about a group 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 Kid Who Brought the Casinos to Their Knees, but the subtitle of the subsequent paperback editions was A True Story of Monumental Excess, Sex, Love, Violence, and ...
Mike Aponte, 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 Institute of Technology (MIT) students that legally won millions playing blackjack at casinos around the world by counting cards. He is the basis for one of the main characters, Jason ...
While studying at MIT, Bloch became part of the MIT blackjack team, featured in the book Bringing Down the House. [2] Bloch said he has made up to $100,000 in one session while playing blackjack. [3] He was one of the members of the team to play in Monte Carlo as detailed in Ben Mezrich's Busting Vegas. [4]
CEO and Founder of tenXer. Notable work. The House Advantage: Playing the Odds to Win Big In Business. Jeff Ma or Jeffrey Ma (born 1973) is a former member of the MIT Blackjack Team in the mid-1990s. [1] He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy. He attended MIT where he graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering in 1994.
Hirschtick was director of engineering at Computervision from 1991–1993, [2] and a manager at the MIT CADLab. He was a player and instructor on the MIT Blackjack Team [3][4] featured in the movies 21 and Breaking Vegas. [5][6] Hirschtick founded the SolidWorks Corporation in 1993 using $1 million he made while a member of the MIT Blackjack ...
Semyon Dukach (born 25 October 1968) is an American entrepreneur and former professional blackjack player. He is the founding partner of One Way Ventures, [1][2] a venture capital fund that backs immigrant entrepreneurs. [3][4] He was the managing director of Techstars in Boston. [5] He was also the chairman of SMTP (company), [6] and a former ...