Repeat Until Rich
A Professional Card Counter's Chronicle of the Blackjack Wars
Penguin Publishing Group · Print & ebook · February 22, 2011
A deliciously wry, edge-of-your-seat memoir about making a fortune from counting cards.
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- Who it’s for
- A wry, high-stakes memoir makes professional blackjack feel tense, strange, and darkly funny.
- Themes
- Card counting and professional blackjack, Risk and living by one's wits, Leaving a conventional career
- Pacing
- Fast
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A deliciously wry, edge-of-your-seat memoir about making a fortune from counting cards. Filled with actual bad guys, chase scenes, and high stakes, Repeat Until Rich is an intoxicating, unprecedented view of the dangerous allure of living off the cards and by one's wits. At twenty-four, Josh Axelrad held down a respectable but dull job on Wall Street.
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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. Taut, atmospheric, and written with clarity and wit, Repeat Until Rich presents a darkly hilarious account of ditching the mundane and entering the alternative universe of professional blackjack-with all its intrigue, adventure, and cash.
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A wry, high-stakes memoir makes professional blackjack feel tense, strange, and darkly funny.
Come here for
- A first-person account of making a fortune by counting cards
- Casino intrigue with actual bad guys and chase scenes
Expect
- Taut, atmospheric storytelling with clarity and wit
- A dangerous, cash-driven alternative to the nine-to-five
Where it sits
| Blackjack | 64% |
|---|---|
| Personal Memoirs | 60% |
| Gambling | 34% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Personal Memoirs
- Blackjack
- Casino Games
- Authors
- Josh Axelrad
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- February 22, 2011
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Card counting and professional blackjack · Risk and living by one's wits · Leaving a conventional career
- Reading lane
- Personal Memoirs