How MIT's Blackjack Team Broke The Bank In Las Vegas

The MIT blackjack teams won millions of dollars over the 90's before they got busted and banned from the casinos. Their story has been covered by several mainstream media outlets and here are some of them...

• Wikipedia: MIT Blackjack Team
• Interview with the team member "MIT Mike" Aponte
• Hacking Las Vegas - The Inside Story Of The MIT Blacjack Team's Conquest Of The Casinos

Article in Wired is based on the book "Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions". Columbia Pictures also released a movie in 2008 based on this book called "21".

Making Millions The Easy Way - BBC documentary of the team and card counting.  

 

 

Breaking Vegas: The True Story of the MIT Blackjack Team - A documentary movie of the team, the history of Las Vegas cheats and card counters, the development of card counting theory, casino surveillance and other counter measures to catch card counters. There are also interviews with casino executives, security experts, gamblers, Vegas historians, and actual members of the team.

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