Being a very complicated game, blackjack attracts players' attention worldwide. This game requires lots of skills and training as there are many complicated rules and strategies. Moreover, many variations of blackjack games exist, which differ from one another by rules and amount of cards in the decks.
However, there are players who like such games of skill and master their skills to become professionals. One of the most popular groups of skilled and successful blackjack players is widely known as MIT blackjack Team.
MIT Blackjack team was formed in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Harvard University. Ex-students of this and other universities were using card counting strategies and techniques to beat blackjack in various casinos across the globe. The Team has been existing successfully and growing since 1979.
No one could have ever believed that MIT blackjack Team would form from the mini-course called "How to Gamble if You Must" that was taught in the university. The course was specially designed for students to practice the basic blackjack game strategy and rules. The students came and went, the strategies were used and modernized, but the real popularity to the blackjack itself and to the MIT blackjack Team brought the group of 6 students that hit the casinos in Vegas by storm!
The successful MIT blackjack Team was formed in the early '90s. The main inspiration and ground of their practice was the Edward Thorp's book Beat the Dealer (1958). The students were motivated and inspired! They were willing to make a fortune! They put the blackjack theory into practice. The group managed to create training methods and combine the wisdom of the past and modern technologies as well as knowledge into the new training approaches. After the years of training, the MIT blackjack Team beat lots of casinos in Vegas in 1994, the date that went into the history. The group won millions and millions of dollars and brought the blackjack game to the new heights! The MIT blackjack Team was the basis for movie 21.