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Loading... Repeat Until Rich: A Professional Card Counter's Chronicle of the Blackjack Wars (edition 2010)by Josh Axelrad
Work InformationRepeat Until Rich: A Professional Card Counter's Chronicle of the Blackjack Wars by Josh Axelrad
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At twenty-four, Josh Axelrad held down a respectable and ominously dull job on Wall Street. Adventure was a tuna fish sandwich instead of the usual turkey for lunch. Then one night, a stranger at a cocktail party persuaded him to leave the nine-to-five behind and pursue an unlikely dream: the jackpot. The stranger was a blackjack card counter, and he sold Axelrad on the vision of Vegas with all its intrigue, adventure- and cash. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)795.423The arts Recreational and performing arts Games of chance Card games Games of chance BlackjackLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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This is a very personal account. Josh Axelrad was recruited into a team of card counters, and as his skill increased, so did his winnings. To outwit the casinos, he disguises his appearance and takes on different personalities. In one laugh-out-loud episode he adopts a flamboyantly gay personality that disarms the casino staff, who entirely underestimate him and what he's doing. Meanwhile, it's not just the exciting action that makes this work so enjoyable, but the author's exuberant over-the-top prose.
As revealed in the book, Axelrad had contracted with the publisher to do this autobiographical account while he was still earning money as a professional gambler. But everything changed... he'd been banned from the casinos, and having grown addicted to gambling, he moved into online poker. His addiction grew worse, and long story short, he lost all of his money. So the last 20% of this book is sobering -- we learn of the dark side of the gambling world, and follow the author as he begins to attend Gambler's Anonymous.
I "loved" much of this book, and am glad I read it. I hope the author has found a satisfying life beyond gambling, and if he ever wrote another book, I would read it. ( )