Character Analysis
(Avoiding Spoilers)
Overview… a MIT professor who supplements his salary with blackjack card-counting. With the help of MIT students he has recruited to his gambling team, he has been able to make an absolute killing in Vegas. But being in charge of a bunch of hormonal college kids/party animals is no picnic, and keeping his merry band of card counters on task occupies most of Professor Rosa’s extracurricular life. Now that he’s recruited math genius Ben Campbell, Micky stands to earn more cash than ever before. But can he successfully integrate Ben into the team?
Personality… tough and pragmatic. Sentiment has no place in Micky Rosa’s management style. As he says, “You are only ever as good to me as the money you make.” So if you’re looking to generate a quick fortune joining his blackjack team, make sure you have the skills to pay his bills. Otherwise, you’re out.
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Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent, student at M.I.T. in Boston who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine with the desire to become a doctor, Ben learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the four to five years of schooling as he comes from a poor, working-class background. But one evening, Ben is introduced by his unorthodox math professor Micky Rosa into a small but secretive club of five. Students Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Fisher, who are being trained by Professor Rosa of the skill of card counting at blackjack.
