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History - Breaking Vegas Professor Blackjack tv-thriller-mystery In the dangerous high stakesThis episode explores one of gambling history's most unusual, legendary relationships and how it changed the casino industry. In 1961, lifelong gambler Manny Kimmel, a "connected" New York businessman, read an article by MIT math professor Ed Thorp claiming that anyone could make a fortune at blackjack by using math theory to count cards. The mob connected sharpie offered the young professor a deal: he would put up the money, if Thorp would put his