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Title: Good story with a few flaws
Review: I found this story to be very entertaining; I managed to polish this book off in two days which is very rare for me unless I am on an airplane.This book describes the story of a bunch of very smart MIT students that took Vegas for millions through some very innovative strategies. Reading it makes me regret that I never had the opportunity to do the same thing.The book did have some problems though; I found the way that the author liked to intersperse the book with chapters from the present to be somewhat annoying. For example, there is a chapter where the author (and not the protagonists) interview a security official at a casino, to have him describe their "card counter countermeasures". The author was trying to foreshadow and build up the suspense, but I found it to be filler. That particular chapter should have been in the appendix, in my opinion. Sure there was some backgrounder information in such chapters, but that could have been a foreword.
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