The Real MIT Blackjack Mastermind

Wade Roush writes "21, the top movie at the box office last weekend, has everyone talking about the real identities of the MIT blackjack team members fictionalized in the movie and in the 2002 book, Bringing Down the House, on which the film is based. Last week a number of stories pointed to former MIT student and Las Vegas resident John Chang as the model for the Micky Rosa character, the club mastermind played in the movie by Kevin Spacey. But Boston-area Internet entrepreneur and real estate developer Bill Kaplan is saying that if anyone is the basis for Micky Rosa, it's him. Turns out Kaplan now battles the "e-mail churn" problem as CEO of Newton, MA, startup FreshAddress, which helps companies correct the outdated e-mail addresses in their customer databases."

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Re:But at least the first one

[focoma]

Let everybody mod me off-topic, but I don't know how the heck you were modded informative. The sig said "...mentioned in the New Testament...", which is where those passages came from. Or is there a New Improved and Highly Abridged New Testament, containing only the Gospel of the Cafeteria Christian, which narrates how Jesus was only a peace-loving hippie who just wanted us all to get along and embrace each other?

The real money was made in the 1960s

[Animats]

The real money was made back in the 1960s, when the theoreticians figured out that blackjack was beatable but the gambling industry didn't know that yet.