21: Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions
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| Rating | : | 4.68 (568 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0013BZYQU |
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| Number of Pages | : | 441 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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In a closing essay, Lewis details the intricacies of card counting.Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. Backed by anonymous investors, team members checked into Vegas hotels under assumed names and, pretending not to know each other, communicated in the casinos with gestures and card-count code words. From Publishers Weekly "Shy, geeky, amiable" MIT grad Kevin Lewis, was, Mezrich learns at a party, living a double life winning huge sums of cash in Las Vegas casinos. In 1993 when Lewis was 20 years old and feeling aimless, he was invited to jo
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.. 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. 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. The #1 national bestseller, now a major motion picture, 21&
Good But Not Gripping I'm a huge math geek myself, so I really wanted to read this story and learn how these guys did what they did. The story definitely held my attention from start to finish, but it wasn't emotionally gripping. It's written with a fair amount of flowery language (more than necessary, I'd say), but lacks a human element. I never felt like I *knew* any of the characters or really cared about them, but fro. Speculation vs. Gambling in 'Bringing Down the House' - Everybody Wins Passin' Through One can hardly deny that making money runs the world today. There are the specialists in making easy money. These are broadly characterized as speculators and gamblers.Speculation and gambling have several differences.Speculation involves increasing one’s chances to profit by various means such as news study, pondering, technical analysis, margin trading, hedging, options, and some have used ps. "Review" according to Aeries Choi. After reading Bringing Down the House, I was excited and fascinated by the luxury life in Las Vegas and the world of card counting. This is a story that's told through the eyes of the author about a group of math geniuses, who used the techniques of card counting. They worked as teams and legally won millions of dollars over just a few years by spending their weekends down in Vegas. The author, Ben M