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Search - Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions
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Other Versions of this Book: Hardcover, Audio Cassette (Abridged), Hardcover
Book Description:
#1 National Bestseller!
The amazing inside story about a gambling ring of M.I.T.
students who beat the system in Vegas -- and lived to tell how.
Robin Hood meets the Rat Pack when the best and the brightest of M.I.T.'s math students and engineers take up blackjack under the guidance of an eccentric mastermind. Their small blackjack club develops from an experiment in counting cards on M.I.T.'s campus into a ring of card savants with a system for playing large and winning big. In less than two years they take some of the world's most sophisticated casinos for more than three million dollars. But their success also brings with it the formidable ire of casino owners and launches them into the seedy underworld of corporate Vegas with its private investigators and other violent heavies.
Filled with tense action, high stakes, and incredibly close calls, Bringing Down the House is a nail-biting read that chronicles a real-life Ocean's Eleven. It's one story that Vegas does not want you to read.
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- Nonfiction >> True Accounts >> True Crime
- Entertainment >> Games >> Gambling >> General
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Jody F. (
5 member(s) found this review helpful.
A fun read...the amazing inside story about a gambling ring of M.I.T. students who beat the system in Las Vegas...and lived to tell how! In less than three years, the students take some of the world's most dophisticated casinos for more than $3 million by playing blackjack.
4 member(s) found this review helpful.
A thoroughly-entertaining real-life how-to on beating the casinos at their own game (NOTE: many of the techniques used here may no longer work -- casino owners know how to read books, too). The authors made millions all across the country, then told this tale. Wow.
Jessie M. (
4 member(s) found this review helpful.
I'm not into gambling at all but I loved this book! Fast-moving, intriguing story
Jan K. (
4 member(s) found this review helpful.
This is an exciting read and an interesting study of human nature, as the students organize their "club" and the winning (at first) is all about beating the house. Very quickly their dependance on the money brought in by their new venture takes the competition in a new and scary direction.
Riveting!
3 member(s) found this review helpful.
The book was so much better than the movie...but aren't they always!
I highly recommend this book. It's a good read and well written. Plus, you get the tips on how to count cards....if you're daring enough to try it...
3 member(s) found this review helpful.
A really interesting insight into the double lilfe of these MIT Students and how they bamboozled Vegas. It was a really good book. It made me want to go to Vegas!
3 member(s) found this review helpful.
SO FUN! A real page-turner. I got so anxious at some points I had to skip a few pages or put it down for a while to relax!
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
Amazing how these math genius's were able to "beat" the system for as long as they did. Although a true story, it read like fiction. If you have watched the movie "21", but haven't read the book, I would suggest reading the book as there are many differences including the ending. Ben did a great job telling the story through the eyes of one student who was a Big Player.
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
Reading the details of the teams' strategy and members' double lives was highly entertaining. Mezrich wrote a good book about an incredible story.
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
The book that inspired the movie - this is a truly unbelievable and astonishing account of the infamous MIT blackjack team (well,one of them anyway). Even if you've never gambled, after seeing the astonishing results the team achieved, you might think of researching tickets to Vegas. A very engaging story with a likable subject who lives out many people's fantasy.
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Excellent book about MIT students who beat the gambling system by counting cards. Could not put it down.
A fun, quick, easy read. It should appeal to a wide variety... back-alley-dice player to scholar.
Very good book, I actually watched to movie first (21). I can see the thrill of cards and wish that you could beat the house as being so many peoples down falls.
I really like this book a lot! I highly recommend it. Very entertaining.
Linda C. (From the back cover - The amazing inside story about a gambling ring of M.I.T. students who beat the system in Vegas - and lived to tell how.
Pretty intense read about the real life behind poker hustlers. Reveals a lot about Vegas and gambling that you'd never see elsewhere. Great for poker players and non gamblers alike.
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