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Hacking Las Vegas

15th August 2002

Hacking Las Vegas (via Kryogenix)—the story of how a bunch of wizz kids from MIT devised the perfect card counting technique and took the casinos for the ride of their lives. Edge-of-your-seat stuff.

Posted 15th August 2002 at 5:30 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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