21: Bringing down the house

Several MIT students learned how to win in Black Jack, and went to hit Las Vegas for a good fortune. They did earn a lot, but then things started to get strange....

I bought this book at the airport as I head towards California and finished reading it during the 6 hour flight. Then in the hotel I swapped it with one of the books in the room. I hope it's fine.

The fact that it is NOT a fiction makes me proud of being in the same school. I totally believe that things about card counting in the book could in fact happen in the real world. The last part sounds a bit fictional, though it's not that unbelievable.

The author also makes winning sound very easy, while in fact it is not, or there won't be casinos. I personally think that the author focused too much on the money part. Throughout the book figures are flying around, in units of thousand dollars. It had its dramatic effect at first, but then I got numb. Yeah, it is a lot money. And?

Contrary to some of the responses written on the book back page, the story makes me don't want to gamble. I definitely don't want to be hurt by some random guy working for the casinos.


ps. The guy in the front of the poster looks a lot like Tegmark, a professor at MIT.