Blackjack team
A young man sat at another table and explained about his great success as a card counter in casinos in Las Vegas, and Heaps showed immediate interest. He seized the opportunity to say hello to the mysterious man and met him for the first time. Kaplan had his own blackjack team that had an incredible success, and that during its first 9 months of life had played out a return of 35 times the initial investment!
Kaplan’s team had played for several years in Las Vegas, as members of the team felt that it was time to dabble in Europe. Kaplan thought it would be too difficult to manage a team in a strange place where different rules applied and the surroundings were different, and he therefore decided to withdraw. Maser invited Kaplan to observe the MIT team while they played, which he accepted.
Playing blackjack
The first Kaplan discovered was that the team did not play the same way, ie, that the team used the same strategy, and that they spent time on unnecessary discussions about technique rather than playing blackjack. Kaplan agreed to take over the team as long as the members agreed that it was run as a business, and the games began to be gaming as a job and not a hobby.
He introduced a uniform foretelling strategy and systematic approach around players, including using trial periods, observations on casinos, and registration of players below. Not everyone was convinced of Kaplan’s plan, but the team started yet his exploits, with in the bag.
Ten weeks later, the amount was doubled. This was the start of a 10-year-long success story where Kaplan and Massage were constantly recruiting new players, operating as a firm, and won millions of dollars. In morale made a small declined slightly, and Maser found out that it was okay to pull out.
Strategic Investments
In however, Maser and Kaplan decided to form a new team with Johnny Chang, and the same year, it was mentioned that Strategic Investments was founded as an official partnership. The team started with a million dollars in luggage and was waiting to tear again.