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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The MIT Blackjack Team gained notoriety in the 1980s and 1990s for using card counting techniques to win at blackjack. They were notably caught in 1997 when the team was banned from several casinos in Las Vegas after casinos became aware of their sophisticated strategies and team play. The team's activities were later popularized in the book "Bringing Down the House" and the film "21."
In general, yes. There were some MIT students barred from playing in a casino a few years ago because of a card counting ring they were involved with, but other than that, almost anyone can play in a casino.
Yes. Though its completely independent from MIT. They just share the same board members.
Anything to Win - 2006 The MIT Blackjack Team Exposed was released on: USA: 2006
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MIT was founded in 1861.
The MIT mascot is the beaver.
IIT is better than MIT. MIT is nowhere in comparison to IIT.
Bloch started playing seriously in 1992, though he was part of the MIT blackjack team, entering some small $35 weekly tournaments once a month. By the end of the year, he had won one of the World Poker Finals tournaments, a $100(US) entry fee no-limit Texas hold'em tournament.
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