Busting Vegas

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Visit the episode webpage below to sign up to the Audible 30-day free trial to listen to full audiobooks for free! Title: Busting Vegas Subtitle: The MIT Whiz Kid Who Brought the Casinos to Their Knees Author: Ben Mezrich Narrator: Ben Mezrich Publisher: HarperAudio Release date: 09-21-2005 Language: English Summary: Semyon Dukach was known as the Darling of Las Vegas. A legend at age 21, 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. Atlantic City. Aruba. Barcelona. London. And the jewel of the gambling crown, Monte Carlo. Dukach and his fellow MIT students hit them all and made millions. They came in hard, with stacks of cash; big, seemingly insane bets; women hanging on their arms; and fake identities. 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' notorious back rooms. The stakes were high, the dangers very real, but the players were up to the challenges, consequences be damned.

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