The Blackjack Institute was founded by Mike Aponte and Dave Irvine for the purpose of showing people how to play blackjack the correct way, and to make their winning system available to the public. Their exploits are chronicled in Ben Mezrich's best selling book, Bringing Down the House, which is the basis for the major motion picture, 21. While students at MIT, Mike and Dave were part of a group of students that were secretly recruited to put blackjack theory and a newly developed training methods to the test. Combining the knowledge and wisdom from past experience with a new training approach, Mike and Dave set out to conquer Vegas. That marked the beginning of the legendary run of the MIT Blackjack Team. The team would go on to win millions and take blackjack to extraordinary heights. Now, Mike and Dave have developed BlackjackVT as the ultimate blackjack training software to teach people how to learn and apply their system.