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The First Card Counters:
Blackjack History and My Trip in 1962 to Las Vegas and Reno
with Professor Edward O. Thorp and Mickey MacDougall
By Russell T. Barnhart
© 2000 Blackjack Forum
(From Blackjack Forum Vol. XX #1, Spring 2000)
In the early 1960s much publicity occurred concerning a 28-year-old professor of mathematics, Edward O. Thorp, first of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) at Cambridge, then of New Mexico State University at Las Cruces, finally of the University of California at Irvine, who was making blackjack history.
I read articles about him in the New York Herald Tribune (January 29, 1961), the Paris edition of the New York Herald Tribune (by Tom Wolfe, December 9, 1962), the Atlantic Monthly (January, 1963), Time (January 25, 1963), Sports Illustrated (January 13, 1964), Life (March 27, 1964), The New York Times (April 3, 1964), and so on.
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Blackjack History and My Trip in 1962 to Las Vegas and Reno
with Professor Edward O. Thorp and Mickey MacDougall
By Russell T. Barnhart
© 2000 Blackjack Forum
(From Blackjack Forum Vol. XX #1, Spring 2000)
In the early 1960s much publicity occurred concerning a 28-year-old professor of mathematics, Edward O. Thorp, first of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) at Cambridge, then of New Mexico State University at Las Cruces, finally of the University of California at Irvine, who was making blackjack history.
I read articles about him in the New York Herald Tribune (January 29, 1961), the Paris edition of the New York Herald Tribune (by Tom Wolfe, December 9, 1962), the Atlantic Monthly (January, 1963), Time (January 25, 1963), Sports Illustrated (January 13, 1964), Life (March 27, 1964), The New York Times (April 3, 1964), and so on.
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