sorry about resurrecting my own dead thread, but i just finished reading
bringing down the house by ben mezrich. its about a bunch of MIT students who devised a way to beat vegas at blackjack. this isnt a how-to book at all, but about what they went through, how they planned things, the lives they lived and how vegas caught on. i found it to be a very interesting read, and easily read in a day or two. a good weekend book.
~james