MIT Blackjack Announces Card Counting School Dates
The MIT blackjack team has become famous after the popularity of the New York Times bestseller “Bringing Down the House” and more recently the hit movie 21. The team won millions from casinos all over the world, and now they are offering their valuable knowledge to the general public. Card-counting classes will be offered in select cities by Michael Aponte and teammate David Irvine. Aponte, the team’s manager, also won the first World Series of Blackjack.
“The next few months could be very dangerous for amateur or half-hearted blackjack players,” said Aponte. “A lot of people who have seen ‘21′ or read ‘Bringing Down The House’ are going to try their hand at card counting. That’s fine, but don’t try to count cards after reading a blackjack book on a flight to Vegas or Atlantic City. That’s a sure path to financial disaster. In the long run these players will end up hating themselves, but the casinos will love them.”
The two will offer a seminar that will teach what people really need to know to beat the casinos. Topics addressed during group seminars include:
- Why blackjack is beatable
- Calculating odds
- Hi/Lo card counting methodology
- Identifying meaningful pairs
- Tracking the true count
- Analyzing playing conditions
- Responsible gaming
Irvine said the training program employed is exactly the same as the one formerly used to prepare students joining the MIT blackjack team. The lessons are created in a manner where students don’t have to be math geniuses to learn them.
Seminars scheduled in 2008 are:
- Las Vegas, NV - April 19 (Platinum Hotel)
- Los Angeles, CA - April 26 (Location TBA)
- New York, NY - May 3 (Location TBA)
- Miami, FL - June 14 (Location TBA)
