Bringing Down The House by Ben Mezrich
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.
Real life all too rarely offers stories that are as satisfying as fictionBringing 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. Mezrich 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 highlife of drugs, high-spending and sex. An insight into a closed, excessive and utterly corrupt world.
Ben Mezrich is the author of four thrillers, published in the US and in a number of other countries.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780434011247 |
| ISBN 10 | 043401124X |
| Title | Bringing Down The House |
| Author | Ben Mezrich |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cornerstone |
| Year published | 2003-06-05 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
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