Biggest blackjack win in history

Blackjack is one of the most popular and profitable games. It has its own history, rules, and a group of fans. While some see this wonderful game as a way to have a good time, others see an easy opportunity to make money and get rich. There are winners and there are losers, and we will try to tell you “What was the biggest blackjack win in history?” and who is a lucky guy.

We can divide the available information into several segments:

• winnings in regular casino games (solo and team winnings); 
• winnings in tournaments (in physical and online tournaments);

Team win

Looking at the information about the winners, the first thing that will surprise you is the presence of teams in the lists of winners, The MIT Blackjack Team. A very interesting story that has received its own film – “21”, I advise you to watch it, and now we try to briefly explain who they are and how they did it.

It happened sometime between 1980 and 1990 in Atlantic City. A group of students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were interested in Bill Kaplan, a graduate of Harvard who made his own method of counting cards. Further, there is no exact data, approximately a group of 60 – 90 graduates from different universities were trained to win in casinos, then they played in different casinos to avoid suspicion of fraud. Thus, according to various experts and participants of this scheme, the MIT team was able to win in the casino and get from 50 million to 100 million dollars.

In such an interesting way it turns their scheme into the biggest blackjack win in history. But, using a little math, we can understand that each of them received from 0.6 to 1.6 million, which puts them back in the list of winners

Solo win

The biggest win in history by a solo player was taken by Kerry Packer in 1995, after 40 min of placing 250k $ bets across eight tables at the same time. Kerry Packer won from 20 to 40 million. This man became a legend in the blackjack world because he was wealthy and played big. His loss meant huge profits for the casino, and his win meant the death of the house. Kerry once lost 27.4 million in ten months, which obviously pleased many casinos. His tactic was his huge budget, making his strategy almost unplayable

Tournaments wins

The largest tournament is the World Series of Blackjack, created by cable network GSN. The entrance fee was 100 thousand, and the winner, Alice Walker, received 1 million. Unfortunately, they closed, but their prize pool took its place in the history of the game as the biggest blackjack win in history of tournaments.