Listened to in October 2006.
I listened to this on my trip to Washington DC in early October 2006. Go KCLS for allowing e-audiobooks to be checked out and listened to. This is the fun and exciting story of card-counting in Las Vegas done by six MIT students during the mid 1990s. They were able to develop a team blackjack strategy and make a lot of money, in legal ways.
Card counting isn’t cheating, and this book talks about how the team recruited new members, how they worked each casino, how they became different roles as they entered each casino to throw off the employees and pit bosses.
The author follows one student’s entry into the team, his rise through the team ranks, and his eventual departure from the team. The story was very captivating since it is centered around a typical anti-hero (MIT EE student) who rises up to defeat the corporate monstrosity of Vegas and in doing so is also highly confident and boisterous in many of his personalities.
Hollywood could make a movie of the story, and only change a few parts of it to make it exciting enough for the mainstream audience.
I highly recommend this book for fun exciting reading about how nerds can rise up and take on the system – and win. You can read more about it and buy it from here.
