The MIT Blackjack Team: Was It Really Cheating?

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The MIT blackjack Team used card counting and teamwork to win millions from casinos. They weren’t secretly changing the cards, but casinos still banned them. Where do you think skill ends and cheating begins?
 
When something more than the brain of the playing individual is in use, then it's starts to slip away.
 
Tero said:
When something more than the brain of the playing individual is in use, then it's starts to slip away.
Tero, I get what you mean. The teamwork is what makes the MIT case interesting, because counting alone is one thing, but coordinating several players is another.
 
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The MIT Blackjack Team used card counting and teamwork to win millions from casinos. They weren’t secretly changing the cards, but casinos still banned them. Where do you think skill ends and cheating begins?
The line is indeed very thin. Skill can turn into fraud when honesty and mutual benefit disappear and a deliberate intent to deceive appears.
 
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@black and , I agree with that distinction. That’s why the MIT case is interesting to me, because their advantage came from skill and coordination rather than deceiving the casino.
 
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