Semyon Dukach Blackjack Science

  1. Semyon Dukach (born 25 October 1968) is the Founding Partner of One Way Ventures, a venture capital fund that backs immigrant entrepreneurs.
  2. Born on 25 October 1968 in Moscow, Dukach moved to the US in 1979 at the age of 11. He completed a BS in Computer Science at Columbia University in New York in 1990 and a MS in Computer Science at MIT in Boston in 1993. At a young age Semyon developed an interest in video games and specifically Pac-Man.
  3. NEWTON - When introduced in 'Busting Vegas,' Ben Mezrich's bestseller about a renegade band of MIT blackjack players who made millions outwitting casino dealers in the 1990s, Semyon Dukach is in.
  4. Semyon Dukach - A Game as a Life. Semyon was born in 1968 in Moscow, but in 1979 he moved to the U.S. After completing his Bachelor's Degree at Columbia University he went to earn his Master's Degree in Computer Sciences. In the process of education Semyon got involved in blackjack trainings.
  1. Semyon Dukach Blackjack Science Fiction
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  3. Semyon Dukach Blackjack Science Fair
  4. Semyon Dukach Blackjack Science Olympiad

Prior to becoming a full-time angel, Semyon co-founded several technology companies including Vert and Fast Engines. Fast Engines was sold to Adero in 2000. Beyond startups, Semyon is known for leading one of the MIT blackjack teams in the early 90s. Semyon earned his B.S. From Columbia University and M.S. From MIT, both in Computer Science.

DVDs

Aponte, Mike and DavidIrvin 60 Minutes to WinningBlackjack — Blackjack card counting Training DVD hosted by Mike Aponte, the2004 World Series of Blackjack Champion

Dukach, Semyon Blackjack Science Counting and BettingTechniques with Semyon Dukach — The first DVD from Semyon Dukach using livefootage from the Blackjack Science card counting seminar. Semyon was an MITBlackjack team leader.

Dukach, Semyon Blackjack Science: Advanced Techniques— The second, and substantially more expensive, DVD from Blackjack Sciencecontains information on advanced techniques: Cut Cards, Ace Sequencing, ShuffleTracking, as they were used by Semyon’s Amphibian Investments MIT blackjackteam.

Bloch, Andy Beating Blackjack with Andy Bloch — MITteam veteran general card counting DVD.

Web Sites

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There exist several web sites with Blackjack information,including discussion forums. The forums tend to be competitive, a few claimingthat all the pros only post to their forum. In actuality, only a tinypercentage of experts post on any forum. This is not meant to be a derogatorystatement. Some people like forums and some do not. Whether it is Blackjack,rocket science, or stamp collecting, most experts on any subject do not post.But there still exists valuable information on several sites.

www.qfit.com — My CasinoVérité Blackjack site.

www.card-counting.com— My Blackjack data and calculators site.

www.advantageplayer.com— Viktor Nacht’s forums on Blackjack, Video Poker, Roulette, and Poker.

www.blackjackinfo.com— Ken Smith’s Blackjack forums.

www.blackjacktournaments.com— Ken Smith’s Blackjack tournament forums.

www.wizardofodds.com— Mike Shackleford’s huge, general gambling site.

www.blackjackincolor.com— Many of the charts in this book are posted here.

Semyon Dukach Blackjack Science Fiction

IT Arena is a place to get astonished: CEO of the most promising data analytics company, who spoke at the conference stage in 2017 is currently in custody for the notorious privacy breach, involving millions of Facebook users. This year’s second-day keynote speaker is a blockbuster prototype, who created a bizarre Blackjack team of MIT students. Dukach’s successful MIT Blackjack Team won over $4 million and was pictured in “Breaking Vegas” documentary. Their exploits inspired the famous “21” movie.

The plot of the “21” movie, released in 2008, is based on the true story of the MIT student group, which became a Las Vegas nightmare due to their card-counting techniques. Although “21” action revolves around a smaller team of Blackjack players, the offshoot of Semyon Dukach’s Amphibian Investments, the real action has been happening with the Dukach’s team. The movie highlighted their Vegas nomad raids, which caused tangible losses for famous gambling houses. “21” became a box office success, having grossed over $ 150 million.

Being the team’s major player for a couple of years, Dukach finished his gambling career shortly. Amphibian Investments naturally dissolved and Dukach created Blackjack Science to share his techniques with the world. He revealed his approach to card counting and sequences in his speeches at numerous events. Several popular TV documentaries and books depicted Dukach’s team exploits, namely “Busting Vegas”, “Bringing Down the House” by Ben Mezrich, and “Breaking Vegas”, etc.

Semyon Dukach Blackjack Science

After quitting the gambling career, Semyon Dukach has been involved in rather fortunate ventures: angel investments, researching virtual reality at IBM in the late ’80s, developing an early internet payment protocol in ’91 at MIT, founding and managing tech companies later. Dukach has also been CEO and mentor at the Cambridge Business Development Centre, and Managing Director at Techstars Boston. His advice to startups is rather humanistic: have a customer in mind, don’t follow the money, but try to make something good for other people. “Empathy is what really drives entrepreneurship,” Semyon Dukach states.

Semyon Dukach Blackjack Science Fair

As a mentor and investor, Semyon Dukach focuses on people passionate and driven by the idea, as he envisions in them a high potential to succeed. He invested in Preply, Petcube, Milewise (a travel app that sold to Yahoo), CoachUp, Amino (formerly Narvii) and a few less successful ventures. His GottaFlirt.com endeavor (a flirtation game for adults) failed due to a poor understanding of demographics. Dukach also invested into energy pricing software firm Plurimi which failed in the dotcom crash.

Semyon Dukach Blackjack Science Olympiad

He launched the Troublemaker Award in 2012, awarding $10 000 cheque yearly to a young individual, willing to take risks for a good cause. Semyon Dukach also founded One Way Ventures - an early stage venture fund focused on backing exceptional immigrant entrepreneurs.

Semyon’s talk will revolve around his personal story of moving to the US, running the MIT blackjack team, starting a software company, then being a full-time angel investor for 15 years, then running the TechStars program and now creating a VC fund. Semyon Dukach will take the stage at 10:00 on September, 29. Tickets can be pre-booked here: https://itarena.ua/#ticket