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    The book Bringing Down the House tells the story of a group of MIT students who used card counting techniques to win millions of dollars playing blackjack in Las Vegas casinos. It describes how Kevin Lewis, a gifted mechanical engineering student, was recruited by his roommates to join their card counting team. Lewis learned the strategies and became a skilled blackjack player. Over time, Lewis and the group traveled frequently to Las Vegas on weekends, using their skills to win money from casinos. After about a year, Lewis led his own team within the larger organization. However, after several successful years of counting cards, casinos began to recognize Lewis and exclude him, forcing him to eventually give up the practice.

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    The book Bringing Down the House tells the story of a group of MIT students who used card counting techniques to win millions of dollars playing blackjack in Las Vegas casinos. It describes how Kevin Lewis, a gifted mechanical engineering student, was recruited by his roommates to join their card counting team. Lewis learned the strategies and became a skilled blackjack player. Over time, Lewis and the group traveled frequently to Las Vegas on weekends, using their skills to win money from casinos. After about a year, Lewis led his own team within the larger organization. However, after several successful years of counting cards, casinos began to recognize Lewis and exclude him, forcing him to eventually give up the practice.

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    The book Bringing Down the House tells the story of a group of MIT students who used card counting techniques to win millions of dollars playing blackjack in Las Vegas casinos. It describes how Kevin Lewis, a gifted mechanical engineering student, was recruited by his roommates to join their card counting team. Lewis learned the strategies and became a skilled blackjack player. Over time, Lewis and the group traveled frequently to Las Vegas on weekends, using their skills to win money from casinos. After about a year, Lewis led his own team within the larger organization. However, after several successful years of counting cards, casinos began to recognize Lewis and exclude him, forcing him to eventually give up the practice.

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    Johan Armando Sarmiento Sánchez

    Book: Bringing down the house,


    “The inside story of six MIT students who
    Took Las Vegas for Millions”
    Written by Ben Mezrich

    Summary:
    Before that begin to talk about the book, I have to say I chose it because I consider the
    book gave me a teaching about the avarice, but in otherwise, the importance that be
    persevering when you want to achieve something.
    The Book starts telling the Kevin Lewis’s life, one brilliant guy who is a graduate
    Mechanical Engineering student at MIT, he was an intelligent child who only wanted to
    work in a big company and be a normal person, one day is recruited by some of his
    roommates to participate in a group of organized card counters, (we have to understand
    that in Casinos, the Card counters is not illegal but if the Casino’s manager catches to
    you counting cards in the game Blackjack, he will expel from the Casino and in some
    cases he and his guards will hit you sharply), continuing with the story, Lewis accepted
    be part of their group, quickly Lewis learnt about counting cards and transformed in an
    expert.
    After that, Lewis began working with the group and they traveled to Las Vegas or some
    other gambling destination on most weekends and uses a variety of techniques to win at
    blackjack. They won a lot of money “ripping off “casinos. Lewis became in one of their
    best players. Over time, the group's membership changes as older members are
    excluded and new members are recruited. After about one year, Lewis is the head of his
    own team within the organization. For this moment they had a fortune.
    After several years Lewis was excluded from numerous casinos and his face was well
    known. And he finally decided to give up card counting. At that time he contacts Ben
    Mezrich, the author, and the two collaborate to create the book.

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