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To: Mani1 who wrote (196023)	7/27/2004 10:27:39 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1573895

>>>>>>>Have you read the book "Bringing Down the House"? It is about the MIT black jack team who won millions using card counting in a team environment which was very effective. Very entertaining book. Haven't read the book but watching the documentary a few months ago. Have also read articles on it. I'm not sure what it is about card counting that has always attracted me. I started in the early 90s, and while we gamble a lot, the only real pleasure in it for me is advantage play (I will play advantage video poker when I can find it, but it is a pretty rare animal in the South). The real rush in gambling, to me, comes from defeating the house. When we go to casinos, I spend as much time looking for beatable games as I do playing. Sometimes more. If you like that book, you may also appreicate "Positively Fifth Street", a great account the World Series of Poker and the murder of one of the Binions and the related trial, both of which were underway at one time in Vegas. Jim McManus is the author, I think.