About a week ago I finished one of the most interesting books I've read in a long time. Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions is about, as the long-winded title might suggest, the MIT blackjack teams that raided the Vegas casinos in the late 90s.

It's an interesting tale about a group of engineering and computing geeks that use their brains to secure a stack of cash in a short amount of time. They count cards, but rather than keeping a track of every card that has been dealt they instead monitor a running total; the deck is either positive ("hot") or negative ("cold") and team play means that large bets can be laid down without raising too much awareness.

The auther has a new book out too and though the reviews are quite bad I think I'll check it out.

I'm going to get a few decks and learn to count cards on the plane trip later this month :)