Tournament Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Practice Matters
The MIT Blackjack Team
The MIT Blackjack Team MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) is a university that places a great emphasis on scientific and technological education and research. Known for molding some of the greatest analytical minds, MIT has produced visionaries in all of their respective fields – visionaries who tend to see loopholes within ostensibly rigid systems and structures. Visionaries like the MIT Blackjack Team.
In 1979 a course
In 1979 a course was introduced into the MIT syllabus entitled ‘How to gamble if you must’. The course aimed to teach students how to play Blackjack based on the principles of card counting. A number of students decided they would put their new-found skills to the test. This group travelled to Atlantic City and although they used their card counting techniques, they failed miserably.