Bringing Down The House Book Real Story

Students who took vegas for millions on which the movie 21 is based has faced scrutiny for its embellishment and massaging of the facts that make up the mit blackjack team s true story.

Bringing down the house book real story. The inside story of six m i t. Students who took vegas for millions. Bringing down the house. The inside story of six m i t.

In a story in sunday s boston globe ideas section drake bennett writes that ben mezrich s 2002 book bringing down the house a tale of whiz kid gamblers from mit that was the basis for the new. Filled with tense action high stakes and incredibly close calls bringing down the house is a nail biting chronicle of a real life ocean s eleven. The story of how mit students go underground and attempt to make a living at the casinos at the black jack tables. Bringing down the house.

The book was adapted into the movies 21 and the last casino. In two years this ring of card savants earned more than three million dollars. A new york times bestseller and soon to be a movie starring kevin spacey bringing down the house is the true story about working the system turning the math into money and keeping the count without breaking character. Though the book is classified as non fiction the boston globe alleges that the book contains significant fictional elements that many of the key events propelling the drama did not occur in real life and that others were exaggerated greatly.

Bringing down the house by ben mezrich. Ben mezrich s nonfiction book bringing down the house. Bringing down the house is the true story of how six mit students turned gambling into speculation to fleece las vegas for millions. This is a real story of one player who turns to a reporter to go undercover and tell his story.

I don t even know if you want to call the things in there exaggerations because they re so exaggerated they re basically untrue said john chang one of the inspirations for the micky rosa kevin spacey character. It s one story that vegas does not want you to read. An exclusive blackjack club came up with a system to take the worldus most sophisticated casinos for all they were worth. His 2002 nonfiction bestseller bringing down the house.

Students who took vegas for millions 2002 details the experience of massachusetts institute of technology mit students who used card counting techniques to beat the odds at casinos in las vegas. The inside story of six mit students who took vegas for millions is a book by ben mezrich about a group of mit card counters commonly known as the mit blackjack team.