Throps book and the history of MIT Blackjack Team in casinos

If you’re a blackjack player you’ve certainly heard of the famous book by Edward Throp, “Beat the dealer: a winning strategy for the game of 21″, with which this professor of mathematics at Massachusetts wanted to provide players with an effective weapon to win at blackjack in the online casinos.

In the early ’90s, what was initially a Club for students at Boston CollegeWas transformed into a team of blackjack players formed by elements of particular skills, who had studied and memorized the book of strategies Throp, And the best of them then forms a group, called Strategic Solutions.

This team, however, had not defined a clear strategic plan, and broke up shortly, so in the summer of 1994, one of the managers of the Strategic Solutions formed a new group, personally selecting the best elements which would have been a member. This new team was called “The MIT Black Jack Team” and had the goal of putting into practice the teachings of the book Throp, and his mathematical theories to attack the mess hitting their weak points.

The team then divided into two distinct groups, “The Anphibians” and “The Reptiles” Amphibians and Reptiles, the number of members who made it part is around 25 people, but because of frequent replacement, the people who made it part time would be much more numerous.

The techniques used were mainly that the team system of counting cards, and occasionally is to draw cards in the deck that was mixed, the system still somewhat risky, the use of which an error could be costly to the player.
The two teams managed to win hundreds of thousands of dollars, spreading terror among the most casinos throughout the world, had a great success and yet managed to never to be discovered for many years.

Following the two groups went to the inauguration of Mohegan Sun Casino Pocono Downs in Pennsylvania, And in one weekend won about Amphibians $ 250,000While the reptile had been winning in the amount of approximately $ 330,000, So the casino had suffered a huge loss, and has since changed the rules to the tables of black jack.

The co-founders of the MIT Black Jack team created the blackjack institute to teach their systems to win at blackjack, and are now available to the public, these are Mike Aponte, Who won in 2004 World Series of Blackjack, Dave IrvineAnd the known Johnny C. known throughout the world for his great qualities of player black jack, and are now part of the history of black jack.