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The MIT Blackjack Team was a group of students and ex-students. The students were from Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Harvard University , and other leading colleges; they used card counting techniques and more sophisticated strategies to beat casinos at blackjack worldwide.
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 ...
David Irvine is an engineer and professional blackjack player and a former member of the MIT Blackjack Team. [1] Irvine was a part of the blackjack team featured in the best selling book, Bringing Down the House, by Ben Mezrich. [2] Irvine was one of the members of a team of MIT students that won millions at blackjack tables around the world by ...
Blackjack. While studying at MIT, Bloch became part of the MIT blackjack team, featured in the book Bringing Down the House. Bloch said he has made up to $100,000 in one session while playing blackjack. He was one of the members of the team to play in Monte Carlo as detailed in Ben Mezrich's Busting Vegas.
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 Team.
There, Tilton also met fellow attendee, D.A., and the two developed into skilled blackjack professionals. Beginning in 2006, they received additional mentorship from Mike Aponte ("MIT Mike"), another member of the MIT Blackjack team, who was the basis for one of the main characters, Jason Fisher, in Bringing Down the House.