Bringing Down the House Summary In Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich, the main character begins as a MIT student, who was a senior on the swim team; his name was Kevin. He, like most others at MIT was a math whiz. He had a girlfriend and a small group of friends who also studied briefly at MIT. His two friends, Martinez and Fisher seemed as though they always had heaps of extra cash lying around. They would always pay in hundred dollar bills, and one day Kevin finally asked where they got all of this cash considering they never had a job. Martinez and Fisher showed him in an extravagant weekend in Atlantic City.
They flew into the city first-class and got escorted to a suite with an ocean view via a limo. Once they arrived at the hotel, Fisher gave Kevin the strict rules of pretend you don’t know Martinez, while Fisher showed Kevin around. They stopped at a blackjack table in the hotel casino and Fisher gave Kevin a …show more content…
They expanded the team so they could have all three leaders playing with their own groups’ simultaneously. They were able to canvas a whole casino, finding the decks that would return the highest profits. They were able to live the high life as their profits increased, until the casinos started to tighten their security.
Plymouth, a private security business hired by casinos, was able to detect card counters and cheaters. Plymouth had found the MIT blackjack club and had warned all the casinos about them. They returned to their former leader, Micky, for advice, and he informed them that they had been sold out, along with all of the other card counters at MIT. The group split up, and eventually Kevin’s group was disbanded after someone stole all of their profits from the new group. Kevin still enjoys the Vegas life and will occasionally go to play some blackjack, but he now has to be careful where he
They flew into the city first-class and got escorted to a suite with an ocean view via a limo. Once they arrived at the hotel, Fisher gave Kevin the strict rules of pretend you don’t know Martinez, while Fisher showed Kevin around. They stopped at a blackjack table in the hotel casino and Fisher gave Kevin a …show more content…
They expanded the team so they could have all three leaders playing with their own groups’ simultaneously. They were able to canvas a whole casino, finding the decks that would return the highest profits. They were able to live the high life as their profits increased, until the casinos started to tighten their security.
Plymouth, a private security business hired by casinos, was able to detect card counters and cheaters. Plymouth had found the MIT blackjack club and had warned all the casinos about them. They returned to their former leader, Micky, for advice, and he informed them that they had been sold out, along with all of the other card counters at MIT. The group split up, and eventually Kevin’s group was disbanded after someone stole all of their profits from the new group. Kevin still enjoys the Vegas life and will occasionally go to play some blackjack, but he now has to be careful where he