Jeff Ma joined GOLF’s Subpar podcast and mentioned enjoying blackjack in Las Vegas as an MIT scholar (and the ebook and film it impressed).
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One of many latest members of Troon Golf has one of the vital attention-grabbing again tales you’ll ever hear. And likelihood is you have heard it — you simply didn’t know his function.
Troon, the world’s largest golf administration firm, just lately launched a brand new loyalty program, Troon Digital, and Jeff Ma runs it as its chief digital officer.
Ma’s held a handful of jobs earlier than he landed with Troon — he additionally at the moment co-hosts a golf playing podcast — but it surely’s what he did whereas attending school at MIT that he’s most well-known for. Ma was a member of the MIT blackjack group that mastered counting playing cards and took journeys to Las Vegas to money in on the casinos. That MIT crew was the inspiration for the ebook “Bringing Down the Home: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. College students Who Took Vegas for Tens of millions” and the film “21” during which the primary character was primarily based off Ma’s expertise.
The ebook spent 63 weeks on the New York Instances Bestseller Listing, and the film made $160 million (practically five-times greater than its finances). These MIT college students making the journeys to Vegas did fairly nicely for themselves, too.
“Our greatest weekend ever we received over half 1,000,000,” Ma stated, “however our greatest loss ever I believe we misplaced a pair hundred.”
Ma just lately joined GOLF’s Subpar podcast and mentioned how he bought into golf and his gig at Troon, however a lot of the dialog centered on his time at MIT, his journeys to Las Vegas and the way correct the film was to depicting their story and his life.
It’s an important hear for anybody who’s a fan of blackjack or this particular ebook or film. You’ll be able to test it out beneath.
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