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Title: million dollar blackjack, eudemonic pie retread
Review: I agree that this book is a amateurish retread of other 'beat the house' books. Ken Uston's Million Dollar Blackjack from the early 1980's (20 years ago!) was a lot more interesting and certainly more original. I didn't see Uston mentioned once in the book, whic is odd, especially in the tehcnical appendix by the team leader. If you like these kind of stories, you might want to try and find the Eudemonic pie (Thomas Bass, The Eudemonic Pie (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985)) which is out of print and is again supposedly a true story about some santa cruz students who built embedded wireless roulette prediction computers that they mounted in their shoes. This was back in the 1980s!For me the writing is heavy handed. Perfect for a hollywood screenplay, like Crichton. Lowest common denominator.
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