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Bringing Down the House

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  • 03-10-2004 11:29am
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    Doublezero8
    Closed Accounts Posts: 133 ✭✭


    This is a book by Ben Mezrich. It follows the true story of the infamous Boston card counting team .

    If you have any interest in card counting , making money, the world of gambling or just in a good story you will love this book. I read this book through it one sitting and just couldn't put it down !!
    Review wrote:
    In 1993 when Lewis was 20 years old and feeling aimless, he was invited to join the MIT Blackjack Team, organized by a former math instructor, who said, "Blackjack is beatable." Expanding on the "hi-lo" card-counting techniques popularized by Edward Thorp in his 1962 book, Beat the Dealer, the MIT group's more advanced team strategies were legal, yet frowned upon by casinos. 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. Taking advantage of the statistical nature of blackjack, the team raked in millions before casinos caught on

    While the book does give the basic's to card counting(Hi/Lo) method . It also mention's more advanced techniques such as card infiltration , NRS , card tracking etc... it doesn't go into how these work. Anyone have some good links or info on these ? ;)

    Oh and has anyone else read the book what do they think ?

    008


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    #2
    Cactus Col
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    Read the book, wasn't overly impressed with it though


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    RuggieBear
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    Cactus Col wrote:
    Read the book, wasn't overly impressed with it though

    Ditto! Interesting story tho...


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    Illkillya
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    Indeed, sounded really interesting when I heard about it on the radio when it came out, but the book could have been so much better. Its worth reading though.


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    pretty*monster
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    I didn't think the writing was great but the story was definatly interesting enough to keep me turning the pages.


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