Breaking Vegas

May 9, 2004

1h 15m

★ 6.7

The True Story of the MIT Blackjack Team

Overview

Documentary tracing the attempts of a team of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Institue students to become rich playing blackjack at casinos throughout the United States and the attempts of the casinos' management to thwart them.

Genres

Documentary

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Cast

Narrator

Aaron Stanford

Semyon

Staas Yudenko

Frank Scoblete

Don Niam

Katie

Catherine Kresge

John C.

Michael Bou

Bill (as Ed Villaume)

Edward F. Villaume

Andy Anderson

Bud Watson

Himself

Andy Anderson

Poker Announcer

Joe Boyd

Herself (as Katie Lilienkamp)

Katie Byl

Himself

Joseph Phong Dao

Himself

Semyon Dukach

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