The last hour of the audiobook is genuinely hard to listen too and you hear the way a poker addiction consumed this mans life and left him a failure. The book is very real and doesn’t involve the absurd fabrication of card counting stories used in books like Bringing Down the House and Busting Vegas.
The author has many hilarious observations on life from a nihilistic perspective that read like lines from Fight Club or American Psycho. Ultimately it is a story without a happy ending. The book involves both triumph and tragedy. Repeat Until Rich has been my favorite book about card counting yet.
Axelrad adopts Jon Roth's "repeat until rich" philosophy - and from his strategy and skill spring hasty retreats across casino floors, high-speed car chases, arrests on dubious grounds, and the massive cash paydays that make it all worthwhile.įilled with actual bad guys, chase scenes, and high stakes, Repeat Until Rich offers an intoxicating, unprecedented view of the dangerous allure of living off the cards and one's wits.Ī nihilistic, comedic, brilliant, and sad book Axelrad has one thing in common with his team: they all thrived in the straight world, found success boring, and vowed to make life more exotic. Repeat Until Rich is Axelrad's taut, atmospheric, and darkly hilarious account of ditching the mundane and entering the alternative universe of professional blackjack. The stranger was a blackjack card counter, and he sold Axelrad on the vision of Vegas with all its intrigue, adventure - and cash. Then one night, a stranger at a cocktail party persuaded him to leave the nine-to-five behind and pursue an unlikely dream: the jackpot. Adventure was a tuna fish sandwich instead of the usual turkey for lunch. A deliciously wry, edge-of-your-seat memoir of making a fortune with card counters across a wide swath of blackjack in AmericaĪt 24, Josh Axelrad held down a respectable and ominously dull job on Wall Street.
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