History of Poker on the History Channel |
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Posted Fri Jun 25, 2004 4:43 pm GMT by Adam Marshall
It's on at 8:00 Eastern time tonight. I guess in 2.5 hours. I can't see it, but it looks nice. I saw a commercial for it and caught a glimpse of some big name poker players. Might be worth a watch. If anyone sees it, lemme know.
BTW, after that at 9, they're doing something on the MIT kids who swindled Vegas too.
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Posted Fri Jun 25, 2004 6:03 pm GMT by Geno
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BTW, after that at 9, they're doing something on the MIT kids who swindled Vegas too. |
Explain that one. I've never heard anything about that 
Posted Fri Jun 25, 2004 7:47 pm GMT by Curtis
^ mit blackjack team? they took over 3 million in 6 months and have been banned from almost every major casino
Posted Fri Jun 25, 2004 8:05 pm GMT by Replic
a) It was a lot longer than 6 months. Try a matter of years. And b) it was a hell of a lot more than 3 million. Try 150 million. And yeah, they're banned from every casino on the planet.
I'm watching the special now, I've seen it before. Go read Bringing Down the House, it's all about that.
Posted Fri Jun 25, 2004 11:10 pm GMT by saper88aa
Already saw both.Very good. History of poker was great.The MIT thing was cool to.Def a must see for both of them.
Posted Sat Jun 26, 2004 7:12 am GMT by Geno
Any1 care to explain HOW the MIT guys did it?
Posted Sat Jun 26, 2004 5:43 pm GMT by groton
Vary Easly just Cardcounting working as a team so u had One Spoter,One counter Both of who made Minamal Bets then your Big Gun who would come in and make the big bets when the Counter gave the signel.
thay practested at Foxwoods before thay went to vegas.
there been MIT Teams for a while even before the Big One hit and there still are MIT Teams.
i also dont think all of the MIT Team are Banned since some of them Keep them self Hid.
Posted Sun Jun 27, 2004 10:11 am GMT by JohnnyCache
Geno - they were a large counting team - really, really, really good counters, college age math geeks recruited from MIT (a top US science school) with a LOT of backing and resources from a consortium of investors.
Bringing down the house is a pretty good book about the whole scheme, as mentioned above. . . it's a little non-linear and a bit biased to make the kid that filled the author in come off a little better then he might in a news story. . .
Posted Tue Jun 29, 2004 7:27 am GMT by Teekan
Adam Marshall | Quote: | they're doing something on the MIT kids who swindled Vegas too.
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Crap, I missed it again. Guess I'll have to rent it, it comes out today by the way! 
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