Overview
The #1 national bestseller and basis for the hit film 21, this true story of an MIT blackjack team reveals how brilliant math students used card counting to beat Las Vegas casinos for millions—and lived to tell the tale.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.
The book, Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions [Bulk, Wholesale, Quantity] ISBN#9780743249997 in Paperback by Ben Mezrich may be ordered in bulk quantities. Minimum starts at 25 copies. Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered.
Details
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
09/15/2003
ISBN-10:
0743249992
ISBN-13:
9780743249997
Pages:
272
Publisher:
Atria Books
