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From Thorp To The MIT Team
- Ed Thorp discovered card counting with early computers and proved it worked, then largely left the practice.
- His theory sparked MIT students to turn counting into a professional craft and teams like the MIT Blackjack Team formed.
How Collins Big-Player Plays Worked
- The MIT team used spotters and “big players” in coordinated plays called Collins to hide betting patterns.
- They used coded phrases and varied game types to avoid detection and preserve their edge.
Small Rules, Big Impact
- Small rule differences and cut-card placement materially change a table's edge and AP strategy.
- Advantage players obsess over these details while recreational players treat blackjack as a single uniform game.