Bringing Down the House : The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions (Paperback)

from EmScape

Mezrich has been given an inside look at a world few people will ever know. The world of high-stakes gambling. It's giddy, glitzy, and glamorous as well as kinda scary once you've been "made." Fascinating and fast-paced, the book races along to the inevitable conclusion, in which everybody gets c...

from nancynova

Six MIT students form a team to play blackjack to win in the 90s. The story focuses mostly on Kevin Lewis, who leads eventually leads a double life. He's an MIT student & eventually gets a job, but on the weekends, he becomes one of a group that travels to Vegas and other gambling places as a pla...

from sweetiegherkin

I wouldn't have necessarily picked this book up on my own but now that I've finished it (for a book club discussion) I'm glad that I read it. The book tells the true story of a team of highly intelligent, mathematically-inclined students (mostly from MIT) who use sophisticated strategies to legal...

from pataustin

In his sixth grade class, Charlie Lewis is known as Numbers, for his love of all-things math. When an MIT student recruits "Numbers" aka Charlie to join a team of middle school students in a secret math club, Charlie is thrilled. Their goal is to learn how using principles of physics, chemistry, ...

from ctmsrybo

 Bringing Down The House by Ben Mezrich is the story of how a group of MIT students used card counting to take Vegas for all the money it had. The book is centered around student Kevin Lewis, who is going about his college duties, studying and working for his degree. Then one day, Kevin is asked ...