MIT Sharks-in-training in Florida

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(Dead link: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/v-print/story/579030.html#) _
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Posted on Sun, Jun. 22, 2008

Sharks-in-training stack the deck
by learning how to count cards

BY DANIEL CHANG

Luck won't be the only factor giving some cardplayers an advantage Sunday when the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino near Hollywood becomes the first gambling hall in the state to offer blackjack and other table games.

In anticipation of the thousands of gamblers expected to try their hand at blackjack, baccarat, pai gow, Let It Ride and Three Card Poker -- all new to Florida casinos -- a pair of former students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are teaching a few blackjack players a way they might beat the house. The former students, whose college-era gambling careers were the basis of the movie 21, are teaching players how to count cards -- a technique that is part math, part memory, and mostly unwelcome at casinos across the country.

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rukus

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the most uplifting sentence from that link:

''Obviously, card counting or any type of advantage play we don't encourage,'' Dreitzer said. ``But there's nothing illegal about it.'

that was from the hard rock's VP of table games there. refreshing to see it admitted by those on the other side of the table from us.
 
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Info on BJ at Seminole Hard Rock, Hollywood, FL

See post by "hockeXpert" in thread under Land Based Casinos - Southern US.

Also, I've posted links to several news stories and photos about the Grand Opening this past Sunday evening.

Looking forward to my first excursion there this coming weekend.
 
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