Bringing Down the House (book)

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Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions (ISBN 0-7432-4999-2) is a non-fiction book by Ben Mezrich about a group of MIT card counters and their MIT Blackjack Team.

The book's main character is Kevin Lewis, an MIT graduate who was invited to join the MIT Blackjack Team in 1993. The team was financed by a colorful character named Micky Rosa, who had organized a number of other teams to play the Vegas strip. This the new team was the most profitable yet. Personality conflicts and card counting deterrent efforts at the casinos eventually ended this incarnation of the MIT Blackjack Team. Kevin Lewis's real name is Jeff Ma, an MIT student who graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1994. Jeff has since gone on to found a fantasy sports company called ProTrade extending the principles of Moneyball.

1 Film adaptation
2 See also
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[edit] Film adaptation

In early 2007, Columbia Pictures and director Robert Luketic began to lens a film based on the book. The film will be entitled 21 so as not to cause confusion with the unrelated 2003 film that bears the same name as the book. ^[1]

Kevin Spacey will portray Mickey Rosa in the film. Other cast members include Laurence Fishburne, Kate Bosworth, Jim Sturgess, Jacob Pitts, Liza Lapira, and Sam Golzari.^[2] The movie is being shot in Boston and on the Boston University campus. Although the events in the book involve students and faculty from across the river at MIT in Cambridge, the movie will not be shot there.