Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took V egas for Millions by Mezrich, Ben - 2004

Unknown Publisher, 2004. Paperback. Very Good. Welcome to the world of a group of audacious MIT math geniuses who legally took the Las Vegas casinos for over three million dollars -- and still foun d time for keg parties, football games, and final exams. The students were handpicked for a decades-old underground blackjack club dedicated to beatin g the system. While classmates worked long hours in labs and libraries, the y traveled to gambling locales with hundreds of thousands of dollars from s hady investors taped to their bodies. Filled with tense action and incredib ly close calls, this is a real-life mix of Liar's Poker and Ocean's Eleven -- and a story Vegas doesn't want you to read.