A laughable question

Probably not the usual question on the message board but it is driving me crazy. Who is Micky Rosa? If anyone has read the book "Bringing Down the House," or watched the movie, "21;" then the obvious answer is the professor and MIT blackjack leader. But the author states that Micky Rosa was a composite character of the true MIT leaders (John Chang, James Patrick Massar, and Bill Kaplan. There is no mention of a real Micky Rosa in the book, "Legends of Blackjack" by Kevin Blackwood and everything on the internet says the character was a composite also. Yet in the GSN World Series of Blackjack, Micky Rosa competed at least the first two years. And in an interview with Michael Shackleford on Gambling with an Edge, he states he played at the same table as Rosa in one of the tournaments. Is someone using a pseudonym/guise or is there a real Micky Rosa that I am not giving credit to? Thanks for the help.

Gypsy

used Micky Rosa entering tournament some time.

...than on John Chang. In an email in response to a claim that Chang was the major part of the Micky Rosa character, Kaplan writes:

�The Mickey Rosa character as developed in the book and the movie is fictitious. But as he represents the founder and leader of the team who made everything happen (e.g. supplied/raised the capital; determined the original playing strategy; structured the compensation terms and incentives for investors, players, and management; put the business processes, training rules, checkout procedures, player tracking and supervision, etc. in place; gone out as a player on top), that would be me.�

I found a photo of Bill Kaplan. Looks like a card counter to me ;)

More about Bill Kaplan in the link below. Interesting person, but not nearly as good looking as Kevin Spacey.

Cobbson

of several people including John Chang and J.P. Massar

from the article:

"he had to fight to get his initial admission to HBS reinstated after the school found out about his history as a card counter"

I know that Harvard is an exclusive school, but do they really reject anyone who frequents legal casinos? After all, I have a hard time believing that they would only reject those smart enough to play with an advantage, while admitting people who do not have the intelligence or ambition to do so.