Busting Vegas: The MIT Whiz Kid Who Brought the Casinos to Their Knees

London. Although they were taking classes and studying for exams during the week, over the weekends they stormed the blackjack tables only to be harassed, banned from casinos, threatened at gunpoint, and beaten in Vegas's notorious back rooms.The stakes were high, the dangers very real, but the players were up to the challenges, consequences be damned. A legend at age twenty-one, this cocky hotshot was the biggest high roller to appear in Sin City in decades, a mathematical genius with a system the casinos had never seen before and couldn't stop -- a system that has never been revealed until now; that has nothing to do with card counting, wasn't illegal, and was more powerful than anything that had been tried before.Las Vegas. There was Semyon Dukach himself, bored with school and broke; Victor Cassius, the slick, brilliant MIT grad student who galvanized the team; Owen Keller, with stunning ability but a dark past that would catch up to him; and Allie Simpson, bright, clever, and a feast for the eyes.In the classroom, they were geeks. Aruba. On the casino floor, they were unstoppable.Busting Vega$ is Dukach's unbelievably true story; a riveting account of monumental greed, excess, hubris, sex, love, violence, fear, and statistics that is high-stakes entertainment at its best.. They came in hard, with stacks of cash; big, seemingly insane bets; women hanging on their a

What does it mean to be smart. Hi-tech morons. Bad points:1. It is not clear just how far ahead this team came out after it was all said and done. There were lots of facts and figures tossed around, but a sum total might have been nice at the end.2. If profit was not the motive of the main character (Semyon), then what was his purpose in starting up a company to sell his strategies?3. Some more discussion of the intelligence involved in catching people. When reading the book, the intelligence figures seemed more like people out of a James Bond novel instead of people that actually proceeded about the business of outsmarting people who tried to rip off casinos for a living.What does it mean to be smart. Hi-tech morons. Leib Gershon Mitchell Bad points:1. It is not clear just how far ahead this team came out after it was all said and done. There were lots of facts and figures tossed around, but a sum total might have been nice at the end.2. If profit was not the motive of the main character (Semyon), then what was his purpose in starting up a company to sell his strategies?3. Some more discussion of the intelligence involved in catching people. When reading the book, the intelligence figures seemed more like people out of a James Bond novel instead of people that actually proceeded about the business of outsmarting people who tried to rip off casinos for a living.4. A bett. . A bett. Joe Schwartz said A Fun Read but Full of Technical Mistakes. I won't bother guessing how much of this book is fact versus fiction -- even as pure fiction, it's enjoyable to read, similar in style to Mezrich's earlier "A Fun Read but Full of Technical Mistakes" according to Joe Schwartz. I won't bother guessing how much of this book is fact versus fiction -- even as pure fiction, it's enjoyable to read, similar in style to Mezrich's earlier 21: Bringing Down the House - Movie Tie-In: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions. The three winning techniques described in the book sound plausible, at least in theory, and I wouldn't be surprised if most casinos really were oblivious to shuffle tracking and precise shoe cutting when the events supposedly took place.However, as much as I like Mezrich's breezy style of writing, he makes lots of mistakes when describing the blackjack action itself. If y. 1: Bringing Down the House - Movie Tie-In: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions. The three winning techniques described in the book sound plausible, at least in theory, and I wouldn't be surprised if most casinos really were oblivious to shuffle tracking and precise shoe cutting when the events supposedly took place.However, as much as I like Mezrich's breezy style of writing, he makes lots of mistakes when describing the blackjack action itself. If y. Busting Vegas and others casinos in Black Jack Charlotte Zax This book is especially connected with those who have played the card game, black jack. The author gives the details of the techniques of the team members who were students from MIT.

—Alex Roslin. Dukach, the son of Russian immigrants who grew up in the poorest neighborhoods of New Jersey and Houston, was determined to climb out of poverty and help his family. They hadn't cheated. Instead, they had discovered one of humanity's greatest holy grails: a system to beat the casino. In one weekend, the MIT math genius and his team of geeks had made $200,000 playing the blackjack tables in Las Vegas. His system didn't involve the commonly used techniques of card counting. Dukach and his friends made millions during the 1990s playing blackjack in the world's top casinos,

He has published twelve books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Accidental Billionaires, which was adapted into the Academy Award-winning film The Social Network, and Bringing Down the House, which has sold more than 1.5 million copies in twelve languages and became the basis for the Kevin Spacey movie 21. Ben Mezrich graduated magna cum laude from Harva