Originally Posted by kewlJ View Post
Originally Posted by OneHitWonder View Post
Has there ever been an AP blackjack player with a rich backer? Surely, if there's considerable interest on capital to be made, bankers would be into it, too.
Ahh..yeah. It's pretty common, actually. Most of the bigger teams, including MIT, had silent backers, as do some high solo limit players. Some of the higher limit blackjack guys buy into each other just the same way poker players do.
Ah, I don't think so. They made money on the movie about that team going broke and falling apart. But, maybe that part isn't true, either. For sure, no one is backing you. And, Shacky lost thousands on a team of his own, years ago. You'd have to fugure too, that Grosjean, Jacobson and the other gambling authors would be millionaires by now with backers. But, they aren't. Where ARE THEY now?