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Busting Vegas: A True Story of Monumental Excess, Sex, Love, Violence, and Beating the Odds
Busting Vegas A True Story of Monumental Excess Sex Love Violence and Beating the Odds
Author: Ben Mezrich
Agroup of brilliant MIT students sets out to take the world's greatest casinos for all they're worth. A legend at twenty-one, cocky, hotshot mathematical genius Semyon Dukach and a group of similarly talented college friends hit casinos with a vengeance-carrying thousands in currency and armed with Semyon's unique, powerful, and legal (but jus...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780060575120
ISBN-10: 0060575123
Publication Date: 9/1/2006
Pages: 304
Edition: Reprint
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  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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3.8 stars, based on 31 ratings
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Book Type: Paperback
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Cheese avatar reviewed Busting Vegas: A True Story of Monumental Excess, Sex, Love, Violence, and Beating the Odds on + 324 more book reviews
This book was not as good as his first book "Bringing down the House" or as it was known after the movie "21". The story follows the same storyline as 21. MIT students learn how to beat blackjack, go to Vegas and make millions then everything goes bad..etc etc.
The only difference is that in this story the students are not card counters but have learned a new technique that requires them seeing the bottom card of the deck and cutting to it. Then either getting the card dealt to them if it is an ace or giving it to the dealer if it is a ten. The techniques are never really explained and are a little bit harder to follow then the card counting technique. The story is pretty good.


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