BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions
Ben Mezrich, . . Free Press, $24 (272pp) ISBN 978-0-7432-2570-0
"Shy, geeky, amiable" MIT grad Kevin Lewis, was, Mezrich learns at a party, living a double life—winning huge sums of cash in Las Vegas casinos. 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,
Reviewed on: 07/29/2002
Genre: Nonfiction
Downloadable Audio - 978-1-4498-9067-4
Open Ebook - 272 pages - 978-0-7432-5084-9
Paperback - 272 pages - 978-0-7432-4999-7