Talk:MIT Blackjack Team
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The article claims that "the card counting techniques used by the MIT team can give players an overall edge of up to about 2%, some of the MIT team's methods have been established as gaining players an overall edge of up to about 4%." It seems to me that this needs a citation. I've been searching google but have found no reports of how much the MIT team improved their black jack odds. Theinsomniac4life 20:29, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
- I don't belive there is any refernce on-line. Check out the book "Bringing Down the House : The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions" by Ben Mezrich -- Jason Palpatine 20:33, 11 July 2006 (UTC) (speak your mind | contributions)
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- Thanks for the reply, Jason. I'm still becoming familiar with Wikipedia and wanted advice on editing this article. Should that line be removed since it lacks a proper reference? I'm not going to take the time to read the book simply to edit this article. It was academic curiosity that made me wonder how great of an edge the team had attained. Of course this is an extremely difficult question to assess, and guesswork estimates of 2-4% seem utterly meaningless to me. My question then, stated more directly, is should this line and similar statements of fact remain in wikipedia articles without proper referencing? Theinsomniac4life
