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作者： Ben Mezrich著

出 版 社： 家庭电子杂志社

出版时间： 2008-2-1字数：版次： 1页数： 340印刷时间： 2008/02/01开本： 32开印次： 1纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9781416561705包装： 平装内容简介

For the first third of his nonfiction debut, novelist Mezrich craps out. Ground lights viewed from an airplane aren't just pinpricks, or even little pinpricks, but "tiny little pinpricks." Las Vegas tourism facts are crammed onto the pages like seven decks in a six-deck shoe. But Mezrich finally hits the jackpot on page 79, when M.I.T. student Kevin Lewis steps onto the floor of the Mirage. The book stays on a roll as it describes how the young gambler and his card-counting cohorts employ simple math and complex disguises to win nearly $4 million at the blackjack tables. Bouncing from huge scores to frightening banishments, the M.I.T. team fights a winning battle against the law of averages--until they're forced to flee south like Butch and Sundance from the gaming industry's Joe LeFors. Although Mezrich's prose never rises above serviceable (and he pointlessly injects himself into the narrative at every turn), the story he tells will grip anyone who has ever hoped to break the bank at Monte Carlo. Frank Sennett

目录

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ONE

TWOBoston, Present Day

THREEBoston, June 1994

FOURAtlantic City, June 1994

FIVEBoston, September 1994

SIXBoston, October 1994

SEVENBoston, October 1994

EISHTLas Vegas, Present Day

NINEThirty Thousand Feet,November 1994

TENLas Vegas, November 1994

ELEVENWeston, MA, Thanksgiving 1994

TWELVEThe Double Life, 1994-95

THIRTEENChicago, May 1995

FOURTEENBoston, June 1995

FIFTEENFoxwoods Casino,Present Day

SIXTEENJuly 1995 to October 1995

SEVENTEEN"Boston, Halloween 1995

EIGHTEENBoston, November 1995

NINETEENLas Vegas, Present Day

TWENTYLas Vegas, Fall 1997

TWENTY-ONEBoston, Fall 1997

TWENTY-TWOLas Vegas, Present Day

TWENTY-THREEBoston, Valentine's Day 1998

TWENTY-FOURLas Vegas, Presidents" Day 1998

TWENTY-FIVEThe Bayou: Shreveport, LA, 1998

TWENTY-SIXBoston, Spring 1998

TWENTY-SEVENBoston, Spring 1998

TWENTY-EIGHTBoston, Spring 1998

TWENTY-NINEBoston, Spring 1998

THIRTYLas Vegas, Memorial Day 1998

THIRTY-ONEBoston, June 1998

THIRTY-TW0Las Vegas, Hard Rock,Present Day

EPILOGUE Las Vegas, June 2007

HOW TO COUNT CARDS

AND BEAT VEGAS An Essay by Kevin Lewis

A CONVERSATION WITH THE AUTHOR

 

 

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