<P> In 2002, professional gamblers around the world were invited to nominate great blackjack players for admission into the Blackjack Hall of Fame . Seven members were inducted in 2002, with new people inducted every year after . The Hall of Fame is at the Barona Casino in San Diego . Members include Edward O. Thorp, author of the 1960s book Beat the Dealer which proved that the game could be beaten with a combination of basic strategy and card counting; Ken Uston, who popularized the concept of team play; Arnold Snyder, author and editor of the Blackjack Forum trade journal; Stanford Wong, author and popularizer of the "Wonging" technique of only playing at a positive count, and several others . </P> <P> Novels have been written around blackjack and the possibility of winning games via some kind of method . Among these were The Blackjack Hijack (Charles Einstein, 1976), later produced as the TV movie Nowhere to Run, and Bringing Down the House (Ben Mezrich), also filmed as 21 . An almost identical theme was shown in the 2004 Canadian film The Last Casino . </P> <P> In The Hangover, an American comedy, four friends try to count cards to win back enough money to secure the release of their friend from the clutches of a notorious criminal they stole from the previous night while blacked out . A central part of the plot of Rain Man is that Raymond (Dustin Hoffman), an autistic savant, is able to win at blackjack by counting cards . In the 2014 film The Gambler we see Jim Bennett (Mark Wahlberg) playing high stakes Blackjack in order to win large sums of money . This movie displays different blackjack lingo and risky moves that have high rewards . </P>

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