Busting Vegas

Busting Vegas a non-fiction book by Ben Mezrich, author of New York Times Best Seller Bringing Down the House. It describes the gambling activities of a group of MIT students who in the early 1990s made millions by using their mathematics and card skills to change the odds of blackjack in their favor. The story follows Semyon Dukach, and his activities over the course of less than a year. The MIT students do not count cards as they do in Mezrich'... More

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Ben Mezrich

Ben Mezrich (born 1969) is an American author from Princeton, New Jersey. He graduated magna-cum-laude with a degree in Social Studies from Harvard University in 1991. Some of his books have been written under the pseudonym Holden Scott. Mezrich attended Princeton Day School, in Princeton, New...

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