Flippin’

(spoiler warning)

Black Jack is probably one of the easiest card game in the world. All the player have to do is make 21 number by adding all the cards together. All the numbers are worth its number and Jacks, Queens, and Kings are all worth 10 points.. However, Ace is worth either 1 point or 11 points. If the cards you have is over 21, you fold.

Ben Cambell is a student in MIT. His brain is not like other people’s ordinary brain. He has a gifted ability to think mathmatically in his brain. However he didn’t relized his special gift untill Micky Rosa, who is one of Ben’s professor, tells Ben about his special ability. Ben wants to go to Harvard’s medical school. However, he does not have enough money to go to Harvard.

Ben was then introduced into a special group formed by Micky, that studies blackjack. This special group guarantees Ben with a high profit. Ben struggles to make a right decision to choose either his friendship with his best friends or his money to get in to Harvard. Soon, he decides to join the group. What this group are studying is not just an ordinary blackjack. They are studying how to break blackjack system. These techniques involved finding the count of the blackjack dealer’s deck and then signaling to other team members in the area when the deck count was high. These signals were as simple as coming up with a word to represent each number (stool=3, luck=7, witch=13, ect) and then using the imformation to tell other person the count of the deck in order for other person to make a huge profit.

After learning how to count cards from the group, he goes to Vagas among other group members and Micky. In Vagas, he experiences new life, love, and invincibility. However, soon he finds out the consequence of going too far with blackjack.

People have a prejudice that all the card games like Black jack, that requires money, is a gambling. However, this movie proved that all the things around us can be described mathmatically. In the end, all the money that Ben make by Blackjack gets stolen. This proves that whatever happens in Vagas, stays in Vagas.