Several years ago a story broke about a group of MIT students who banded together and used complex mathematical formulas to "break" blackjack.
They won millions of dollars before getting caught.
Atlas Media Corporation of New York City shot a pilot episode that detailed that story. The episode was a success, and execs at the History Channel wanted to see more.
There were lights, cameras, and plenty of action as the crew and actors brought to life even more scenes of the art of trickery.
"Each story is a one hour story on an individual who has done something extraordinary, and it's all different areas of gambling from blackjack to roulette to craps to the slots. So they're all really amazing stories, and they cover all different eras. Some of them take place in the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s," said Emily Berry who is a Producer with Atlas Media Corp.
The stories happened at casinos around the world, but with a little movie magic the crews transformed the Mohawk Casino to look like many of those places.
"This casino is perfect for us because it can kind of have different looks with very little tweaking from our art department, with a drape here or putting a little curtain in the background. And then we kind of sell it through tricks of the trade with filmmaking too," said Berry.
"We are going to film our team, our actors here playing blackjack at Akwesasne. They will then get up and they might walk out of the casino and walk onto the Las Vegas strip because two weeks from now we're going to be filming these actors walking down the Las Vegas strip. That's how we sort of match it," said Bruce David Klein who is the Executive Producer of “Breaking Vegas.
Once crews are done shooting the reenactments, it will take them several weeks to review all of the footage.
They will then combine that with interviews and any original footage to create the final product.
You can catch the first of thirteen hour-long episodes in March.
