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Busting Vegas: A True Story of Monumental Excess, Sex, Love, Violence, and Beating the Odds (Ben Mezrich)

He played in casinos around the world with a plan to make himself richer than anyone could possibly imagine ...

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wrldtrv76810
03/06/2009

Busting Vegas: A True Story of Monumental Excess, Sex, Love, Violence, and Beating the Odds (Ben Mezrich) 4

If you can ignore the purple prose and the implausability of many of the details, you will not be able to put down this book! If it hasn't already happened, I think this would make a great movie.

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TheJPer
01/28/2009

Busting Vegas: A True Story of Monumental Excess, Sex, Love, Violence, and Beating the Odds (Ben Mezrich) 4

Very interesting book, however it could have been better written. Extreme amount of fluff descriptions to fill the pages.

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MatthewEmerich
10/24/2008

Busting Vegas: A True Story of Monumental Excess, Sex, Love, Violence, and Beating the Odds (Ben Mezrich) 5

This book was amazing, Ben writes some gripping and rather amzing stories considering they are nonfiction!

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D.Nehme
08/19/2008

Busting Vegas: A True Story of Monumental Excess, Sex, Love, Violence, and Beating the Odds (Ben Mezrich) 2

This book is pretty much an advertisement for one of the subject's seminars. So many things in this are clearly fabricated. If a casino sees you make hugely varying bets and coming out ahead, they will ask you to leave, ban you from the casino, then share your picture with the other casinos. It's actually fairly easy to beat blackjack, but it's hard to do it without the casino.

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RudyA.Wong
08/19/2008

Busting Vegas: A True Story of Monumental Excess, Sex, Love, Violence, and Beating the Odds (Ben Mezrich) 5

For the longest time, I thought Busting Vegas and Bringing Down the House were the same book with different titles. After not being thrilled with Mezrich's RIGGED, I ran into Busting Vegas at a nearby bookstore and realized that indeed it was a completely different book than BDTH.

I thoroughly enjoyed this very entertaining account of a completely different formula to "Beat the House" than card counting. If you have read Mezrich's other works and enjoyed them, as well as enjoy the game of blackjack, I think you cannot go wrong with this one. The characters are vivid and the story telling is rich and vivid with detail.

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