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What does it take to count cards? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly explore blackjack, quantitative thinking, and the journey from MIT blackjack player to angel investor with Semyon Dukach, Managing Partner at One Way Ventures.
How did a bunch of MIT blackjack players make millions in casinos? Learn about counting cards and what it takes to do it successfully. Is counting cards illegal? We find out what made Semyon interested in blackjack in the first place and Chuck’s relationship with blackjack.
What is card steering? We explore some of the methods utilized by the MIT blackjack team like computer simulations. What made Semyon walk away from the game? We talk about the skills honed while playing blackjack. Does card counting actually help the game of blackjack?
Was the MIT blackjack team a hothouse for future entrepreneurs? We learn about Semyon’s experience as an immigrant and refugee and how that influences his current ventures. How has his sense of purpose changed since playing cards? Plus, are immigrants more likely to succeed?
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00:00 – Introduction: Counting Cards
03:30 – Learning to Beat Blackjack
15:20 – Card Steering & Techniques
17:30 – Models & Simulations
24:10 – Why Did He Stop?
27:50 – Lessons from the Blackjack Table
30:30 – Entrepreneurship & Immigrants
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🤷♂️ I cant even enjoy a game of roulette at a casino…
I bet on 1/8th of 1 to 5 pay outs. 😅 they give you 30 seconds… not enough time to play the spread because they believe fate can be quantified by calculation…
I stay away from table games. 😋✌️
to be honest as i brown person who no longer makes less than 1 million per year. I love when chuck rants… i know ur do not care youtube. BUT DISNEY does listen.. VAMOS let us all be happy but do not hurt others in ur happiness.
Texas who has so much land i promise the wallet i handle will make sure millions of people are happy. VAMOS
The most important rule on gambling is to always quit while you're on top. All gambling strategies inevitably lose to the house edge in the long term.
Neil, Are you in an airplane?
Advanced algebra but basic battle code…seethe MIT 2016 battlecode course. #POW2.0
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Neil, have you read the 1985 book "The Eudaemonic Pie"? It is a wonderfully informative true tale of physicists and computer techs taking on Las Vegas.
There's a big difference between illegal immigration and legal immigration Chuck. Don't let your hatred of 1 person blinds you. I can speak from experience because I am an immigrant. My family did it legally and now we are citizens.
I have a good friend who wrote a book about the stock market, and how to approach it properly as an investor. "Trade Like a Casino" by Richard Weisman. Casinos make their money over a long term because the gaming community/laws or rules, grants them a 3% annual average advantage over the random gambler. The stock market works a bit similar, in the average accumulation of your investment. You can not look at the up and down, but the mean for the duration. There is no granting of 3% in the stock market, by laws or regulations, however there is enough participation in the long term, that allows trust to grow over time. Counting cards seems to be the same type of game.
Who else got also that little moment of relief when you begin watching the video that has an interesting topic when neil announces Chuck