Rick Blaine is a career executive with a Fortune 500 company whose hobby for the past 25 years has been beating the casinos at blackjack. Well-versed in all aspects of winning blackjack play, Blaine has excelled both solo and as a blackjack-team player and leader. Blaine has earned a significant (mid-seven-figure) second income and traveled the world playing blackjack. He is particularly well-known in blackjack circles for his ability to teach new players how to beat the game. He lives in New York. Breandán Delap is an award-winning author and journalist born in Bunbeg, County Donegal, a half-mile from Vincent Coll's birthplace. He's a news editor with RTÉ, Ireland's national broadcaster, and the producer of "Seacht Lá," a weekly current affairs program on TG4, the Irish language station. He is the author of two books in Gaelic about the Irish media.

Breandán was named Oireachtas Journalist of the Year in 1998 and again in 2010. In 2003, he won the ESB Journalist of the Year award for an exposé of a sex-abuse scandal in an Irish summer college over a 30-year period. Most recently, Breandán received a WITBN (World Indigenous Television Broadcasters Network) award for investigative journalism in 2014. Rich Gold is an author and award-winning documentary filmmaker. Rich's first documentary project as producer/director, In the Footsteps of Willie Sutton , was released in 2011 and won Best Documentary in the Golden Door Film Festival. Fueled by a fascination for true-crime films, Rich wrote his first screenplay, Gallo , based on the true story of mobster Joey Gallo. Rich is currently developing In the Footsteps of Mad Dog Coll as the second in what is shaping up to be a series of true-crime documentaries.