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tracking blackjack's odds in your head, then betting like the deck owes you money.
means a system of assigning values to cards seen so far to estimate whether remaining cards favor the player or the house.
from edward thorp formalized it in 1962's beat the dealer, using early computer simulations to prove blackjack could be beaten with math, not luck.
legalitylegal everywhere, casinos just ban you anyway
mit teamwon millions, later became a hollywood movie
real edgeoften under 1 percent, not a jackpot
hi-lo systemsimplest method, just add and subtract by one
for instance
mit blackjack team — 1980s-2000s, extracted tens of millions from vegas casinos
edward thorp — 1962, mathematician who literally wrote the book on it
ben affleck ban — 2014, hard rock casino barred him for suspected counting
don johnson — 2011, beat atlantic city casinos out of 15 million dollars