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During the recent telephone conversation, the former MIT card-counter was asked how much of a role trust played during the MIT experiment?

"It was very important that we trust each other," Bloch replied. "In most businesses you can pretty easily check up on your employees and figure out whether they are doing their jobs right and whether they are stealing from you. With [team] blackjack, we can test people and make sure that outside the casino they are playing well, but we cannot watch everything that everybody does. So we really have to trust people. Feeling like you're part of a team really helps with that."

Asked whether there are any common aspects shared by both poker and blackjack, Bloch responded by saying that the commonalities are not so much in the explicit skills as it is in developing good habits.

"The biggest thing you learn from blackjack is bank roll management," Bloch added.

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