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Semyon Dukach was one of the main MIT Blackjack Team members and happens to be of European decent. He used that to his advantage by mentioning that he was a Russian arms dealer with lots of cash to use. The MIT Blackjack Team was a group of students and ex-students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard Business School, Harvard University, and other leading colleges who used card-counting techniques and more complicated strategies to defeat casinosat blackjack worldwide. The team and its winners acheived profitably from 1979 through the beginning of the 21st century. Many other blackjack teams have been formed around the world with the goal of beating the casinos.

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