Now that people have watched the movie about the students from MIT that counted cards all the way to their fortunes by playing Blackjack. Las Vegas casinos have reached a large audience through the movie "21" and now an online casino has issued a challenge to the former MIT students to play against their software.

Backgammon Masters is an online gaming site that has both popular casino games and board games like, poker, backgammon and blackjack. They have now developed a new blackjack platform that is complete with a new tool that is called the basic blackjack calculator. Backgammon Masters has reached an agreement with the group of MIT card players to test out the system.

The basic blackjack calculator will help players figure out the odds so they can make the best play and it also helps with card counting. But the MIT players are sure to find new challenges that aren't found in live casino play, like random shuffles, numbers of decks and extensive software research.









- 2008-04-23