Busting Vega$ is Dukach's unbelievably true story a riveting account of monumental greed, excess, hubris, sex, love, violence, fear, and statistics that is high-stakes entertainment at its best.īen Mezrich has created his own highly addictive genre of nonfiction, chronicling the amazing stories of young geniuses making tons of money on the edge of impossibility, ethics, and morality. On the casino floor, they were unstoppable. There was Semyon Dukach himself, bored with school and broke Victor Cassius, the slick, brilliant MIT grad student who galvanized the team Owen Keller, with stunning ability but a dark past that would catch up to him and Allie Simpson, bright, clever, and a feast for the eyes. The stakes were high, the dangers very real, but the players were up to the challenges, consequences be damned. Although they were taking classes and studying for exams during the week, over the weekends they stormed the blackjack tables only to be harassed, banned from casinos, threatened at gunpoint, and beaten in Vegas's notorious back rooms.

They came in hard, with stacks of cash big, seemingly insane bets women hanging on their arms and fake identities. Dukach and his fellow MIT students hit them all and made millions. And the jewel of the gambling crown - Monte Carlo. A legend at age twenty-one, this cocky hotshot was the biggest high roller to appear in Sin City in decades, a mathematical genius with a system the casinos had never seen before and couldn't stop - a system that has never been revealed until now that has nothing to do with card counting, wasn't illegal, and was more powerful than anything that had been tried before. Semyon Dukach was known as the Darling of Las Vegas. He played in casinos around the world with a plan to make himself richer than anyone could possibly imagine - but it would nearly cost him his life.

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