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21: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions (aka Bringing Down the House) (Audio CD) (Unabridged)
21 The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions - aka Bringing Down the House - Audio CD - Unabridged Author:Ben Mezrich, Johnny Heller (Narrator) Real-life all too rarely offers stories that are quite as satisfying as fiction. This is one of the exceptions. Cheating in casinos is illegal; and 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 di... more »slike the practice and make every effort to keep card-counters out of their premises. "21" 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.
Unabridged: 7 Compact Discs, Running Time: 8 hours, Narrator: Johnny Heller.« less
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Fascinating! Great story made even better because it's true. A glimpse into the world of gambling, profit, and the background workings of Vegas and those who set out to break the "bank."