Bringing Down the House
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Bringing Down the House

The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions

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  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Bringing Down the House

The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Atria Books
Year
2002
eBook ISBN
9780743250849
Print ISBN
9780743249997
Subtopic
Science & Technology Biographies

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Chapter One
  3. Chapter Two: Boston, Present Day
  4. Chapter Three: Boston, June 1994
  5. Chapter Four: Atlantic City, June 1994
  6. Chapter Five: Boston, September 1994
  7. Chapter Six: Boston, October 1994
  8. Chapter Seven: Boston, October 1994
  9. Chapter Eight: Las Vegas, Present Day
  10. Chapter Nine: Thirty Thousand Feet, November 1994
  11. Chapter Ten: Las Vegas, November 1994
  12. Chapter Eleven: Weston, MA, Thanksgiving 1994
  13. Chapter Twelve: The Double Life, 1994–95
  14. Chapter Thirteen: Chicago, May 1995
  15. Chapter Fourteen: Boston, June 1995
  16. Chapter Fifteen: Foxwoods Casino, Present Day
  17. Chapter Sixteen: July 1995 to October 1995
  18. Chapter Seventeen: Boston, Halloween 1995
  19. Chapter Eighteen: Boston, November 1995
  20. Chapter Nineteen: Las Vegas, Present Day
  21. Chapter Twenty: Las Vegas, Fall 1997
  22. Chapter Twenty-One: Boston, Fall 1997
  23. Chapter Twenty-Two: Las Vegas, Present Day
  24. Chapter Twenty-Three: Boston, Valentine’s Day 1998
  25. Chapter Twenty-Four: Las Vegas, President’s Day 1998
  26. Chapter Twenty-Five: The Bayou: Shreveport, LA, 1998
  27. Chapter Twenty-Six: Boston, Spring 1998
  28. Chapter Twenty-Seven: Boston, Spring 1998
  29. Chapter Twenty-Eight: Boston, Spring 1998
  30. Chapter Twenty-Nine: Boston, Spring 1998
  31. Chapter Thirty: Las Vegas, Memorial Day 1998
  32. Chapter Thirty-One: Boston, June 1998
  33. Chapter Thirty-Two: Las Vegas, Hard Rock, Present Day
  34. How to Count Cards and Beat Vegas: An Essay by Kevin Lewis
  35. ‘Bringing Down the House ’: Interviews, and Where Are They Now?
  36. Acknowledgments
  37. ‘Woolly’ Teaser
  38. About the Author
  39. Copyright

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