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Horizon: Making Millions the Easy Way

on BBC Two England

Mobsters, detectives and glamorous locations populate the story of a game of cat and mouse between young scientists and the casinos of Las Vegas. A lecturer at America's Massachusetts Institute of Technology worked out that the odds in blackjack work differently to other games. He developed a system that tipped the odds and set off to Vegas with a bankroll from the Mob. But the casinos called science to their aid too.
Who was brighter: the MIT whizzkids or the detectives?
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Producer:
Johanna Gibbon
Editor:
Matthew Barrett

BBC Two England

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