Book description
'I was thrown out of my first casino in spring of 2000. In the
years since then I've kept playing and kept winning, in wigs, under
aliases, from behind fake glasses. I've been chased across casino
floors; followed outdoors by crazed goons with drawn weapons;
pursued in a car at high speeds; and placed wrongfully under arrest.
Casinos continue to provide my entire income, along with free rooms,
Champagne, and, most important, a mission in life. The heat, this
business of getting thrown out, hasn't kept me away from the action
at all; it's the very force that keeps me coming back.'
Repeat Until Rich is the hotly awaited true adventure of how
an average Joe in a dead-end spreadsheet job took to the road as a
member of a blackjack card-counting gang taking millions of dollars
from casinos across the US.
Josh was an Ivy League graduate who grudgingly started a regular
life before a chance meeting at a party changed his life forever. This
is a brilliantly written memoir first and gambling book second - a
universal tale of an everyday guy's unexpected exit into a mysterious
and dangerous underworld from which there's no going back. It is a
story about finding meaning in a crazed ongoing battle far from the
dull and comfortable confines of the 9 to 5 world.
Josh Axelrad is a professional blackjack player. He has won hundreds
of thousands of dollars from casinos. A native of southern California
and a philosophy graduate from Columbia University, Josh currently
resides in New York. When he's not on the road, he broadcasts for NPR
and writes for the
Moon City Review
.
