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“They proved the Vegas Blackjack System was beatable...by beating the hell out of it.”

Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess), an M.I.T. student, needs $300,000 to get into Harvard Medical School, and nobody can explain why his math professor, Micky Rosa (Kevin Spacey), has taken an interest in him. Rosa recruits him into a secret group of five students, including Jill (Kate Bosworth), who are being trained in card counting at blackjack. Robert Luketic follows Ben into the money, where talent becomes a way out of being poor.