gamblers

Describes how a group of overachieving, anarchist MIT students joined a decades-old underground blackjack club dedicated to counting cards and beating the system at major casinos around the world, managed to legally take several Las Vegas casinos for more than three million dollars.

Billy Phelan, a pool hustler, poker player, and bookie in Depression-era Albany, New York, gets caught up in the kidnapping of a political boss's son.

Presents the author's first-hand account of his gambling addiction, from wagering away his beloved baseball card collection, to forfeiting everything he owned at a blackjack table.