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Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions

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Release date NZ
May 6th, 2004
Author
Pages
306
Dimensions (mm)
132x200x21
Edition
New edition
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Imprint
Arrow Books Ltd
ISBN-13
9780099468233
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Product ID
1659757

Description

Real-life all too rarely offers stories that are quite as satisfying as fiction. Bringing Down the House is one of the exceptions. Cheating in casinos is illegal; card-counting - making a record of what cards have so far been dealt to enable the player to make some prediction of what cards remain in the deck - is not. But casinos understandably dislike the practice and make every effort to keep card-counters out of their premises, banning them and using private detectives to share information on suspected and known counters. Bringing Down the House tells the true story of the most successful scam ever, in which teams of brilliant young mathematicians and physicists won millions of dollars from the casinos of Las Vegas, being drawn in the process into the high-life of drugs, high-spending and sex. Bringing Down the House is as readable and as fascinating as Liar's Poker or Barbarians At the Gate, an insight into a closed, excessive and utterly corrupt world.

Author Biography

Ben Mezrich is the author of four thrillers, published in the US and in a number of other countries.
 

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