FWIW, (and I think this has been brought up on FTR before), if you remember the highlights of the '03 WSOP - Varkonyi had his coach that he was training with (sorry I don't remember that guy's name). Supposedly the "coach" was the mastermind behind the MIT team that the book was based on.

Anyone catch the movie a year or so ago, based on one of the MIT teams (different from the one profiled in the book, but somewhat interesting nonetheless). Think it was on the History/Travel/Discovery Channel.