Bringing Down the House

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…defended himself by saying, "The idea that the story is true is more important than being able to prove that it’s true." Minispeak, if I've ever heard it. Ick. This book will be sensationalist entertainment posing as non-fiction. It will probably be a good read, as Bringing Down The House was, but it had nothing to do with the reality of the situation, and it will serve to further distance the current image of the web entrepreneur from reality.

I'm a little surprised "21" wasn't mentioned yet. The movie, like the book "Bringing Down the House", is a fictionalized account of a true story about how the MIT blackjack club took Vegas casinos for many thousands of dollars.

…an out and were reshuffled, the Big Player would split and look for another hot deck at another table. This way they could multiply the gain when they found a hot deck. "Bringing Down the House" (the book the movie was based on) was one of the best of the 100 or so books I've read in the last year. PS How cool is it that Kevin Spacey reads Wired?

See also http://www-tech.mit.edu/V128/N12/blackjack.html for an interview with Ben Mezrich, author of "Bringing Down the House" and Jeffrey Ma, the person that Jim Sturgess' character is based on.

I've read the book "Bringing down the house", really fascinating read. Definitely going to go to this movie!

There seems to be a good tradition of "gambler hackers", e.g. - Edward O. Thorp ("Beat the Dealer" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_O._Thorp ) - Keith Taft ( http://www.blackjackforumonline.com/content/taftint.html ) - the MIT Blackjack Team ( "Bringing down the house" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bringing_Down_the_House_ (book) )

Anybody ever read "Ugly Americans" by Ben Mezrich? This reminds me of that. (BTW - he was the guy that wrote "Bringing Down the House")