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Students struggle to find a winning hand
Vegas. As the title of the movie indicates, their game is blackjack (AKA pontoon). The film is vague on the mechanicsgathers, it is a sophisticated variation on card counting (in blackjack, unlike poker, the cards are never shuffled and many ofend of hands). A "spotter", playing for hours at the same table, secretly signals when the probabilities of a good handproudly proclaims, "fact based". There was indeed an MIT "blackjack team" and they did make killings in Las Vegas.
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