8 Blackjack Hall of Fame

•Al Francesco – a professional gambler who was constantly barred by casinos and as a result created the concept of "Blackjack Teams" that you see in the Movie 21 (2008). One of the most famous players of all time.

• Ken Uston - The leading Blackjack player of Al Francesco´s Team. Ken and his team won millions of dollars at the Blackjack tables, which did not endear them to the casino bosses. He used disguises to enter the casinos without being recognized.

• John Chang - former MIT team manager and basis for the Mickey Rosa character in the Movie 21 (2008). Chang estimates the MIT teams took about $10 million out of casinos over the years.

• Keith Taft - card counting wasn't Taft's forte and he set out to find a computer-based strategy. Later on, Taft partnered with Ken Uston, another Blackjack VIP. The team's success was legendary - they won 80% of the time.

• Edward O. Thorp - Creator of the card-counting technique in Blackjack. Author of the 1960s classic Beat the Dealer. When decided to subject his theories in the casinos of Las Vegas he won $11,000 ($100,000 in today's dollars) over the course of a single weekend. He could have won even more, but casino security took umbrage at his winning ways and expelled him.

• Peter Griffin - mathematician, theoretical pioneer and author of The Theory of Blackjack. Griffin's approach to Blackjack was that of a true intellectual and not of a professional gambler.

• Arnold Snyder - an accomplished and respected professional Blackjack player. He is best known for his contributions to the literature of Blackjack such as the forum Blackjack.

• Tommy Hyland - manager of one of the longest-running Blackjack teams. Over the course of a more than 25 year career, the Hyland team won millions of dollars every year from casinos throughout the United States and abroad.

• Stanford Wong - (pseudonym) began making a living playing Blackjack while teaching finance courses at San Francisco State University and getting his Ph.D in Finance . Author and populariser of the strategy known as "Wonging".

• Max Rubin - known for doing media reports on gambling events, and optimising casino comps. Beneath Rubin's comic exterior lies an experienced and quite astute analyst of the game of Blackjack. He has appeared as an expert commentator on a number of television shows, including the Discovery Channel's "Casino Diaries, and CBS's "Ultimate Blackjack Tour."

•Julian Braun - Braun was a quiet, reclusive man. Wrote How to Play Winning Blackjack, planned to guide the Blackjack player through any situation that might arise at the Blackjack table. As the title promised, Braun's book was indeed a practical manual on how to win at Blackjack.

• Lawrence Revere - The author of the classic Playing Blackjack as a Business. He was also a top professional Blackjack player. Playing Blackjack as a Business emphasized the importance of discipline, practice, and patience.

• James Grosjean - One day, as a result of sloppy technique by the dealer, he was able to see the dealer's hole (face down) card. He ran mathematical analyses on how to best exploit the opportunity, and became the leading expert in the art and science of hole carding.

• Roger Baldwin, Wilbert Cantey, Herbert Maisel and James McDermott - collectively known as "The Four Horsemen of Aberdeen", while serving in the U.S. Army in the fifties, discovered and published in the Journal of the American Statistical Association the first accurate basic strategy for Blackjack, using only desk calculators.