Josh Axelrad
Auteur de Repeat Until Rich: A Professional Card Counter's Chronicle of the Blackjack Wars
Œuvres de Josh Axelrad
Repeat Until Rich: A Professional Card Counter's Chronicle of the Blackjack Wars (2010) 50 exemplaires
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- Œuvres
- 1
- Membres
- 50
- Popularité
- #316,248
- Évaluation
- 3.3
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 6
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.… (plus d'informations)