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Cover of Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich

Bringing Down the House

Ben Mezrich · 2002
Mentioned 8 times across 5 podcasts · 2018–2026
Mention timeline8 mentions
20182026
Where it's mentioned
2026
The Viral Chess Cheating Scandal with Anal Beads: Ben Mezrich Reveals the Full Story
The James Altucher Show · Jun 2026
“He wrote the movie 21 because he wrote the book Bringing Down the House”
2024
Business Tricks We've Learned From Gamblers, Pickup Artists, & Feynman
My First Million · Jun 2024
“Until I read the book, I think it's called Bringing Down the House or something like that. That's the other blackjack card counting book”
2023
A Masterclass On Flipping DTC Brands For Millions With Mehtab Bhogal
My First Million · Apr 2023
“This was before the movie came out twenty one, but the book Bringing Down the House was out”
2022
#576: Morgan Housel — The Psychology of Money, Picking the Right Game, and the $6 Million Janitor
The Tim Ferriss Show · Mar 2022
“see the same thing in say uh a book like Bringing down the house by uh Or Met Rich. I apologize, Ben, I've forgotten how to say your last name. Uh which was later made into twenty one about this I believe it was an a team out of MIT that developed a system for counting cards in Blackjack”
#566: John List — A Master Economist on Strategic Quitting, How to Practice Theory of Mind, Learnings from Uber, Optimizations to Boost Donations, the Primitives of Decision-Making, and How Field Experiments Reveal Hidden Realities
The Tim Ferriss Show · Jan 2022
“specifically I think it was single deck. Or maybe two deck blackjack. in bringing down the house, which was later made into into twenty-one”
2021
#535: General Stanley McChrystal — Mastering Risk: A User's Guide
The Tim Ferriss Show · Sep 2021
“Or you look at, say, a book like Bringing Down the House uh by Ben Metrick, which was about this team from MIT who had a system for winning in blackjack”
2019
Jeff Ma – Making Decisions with Data - [Invest Like the Best, EP.151]
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Dec 2019
“Jeff was on the famous MIT blackjack team from the book Bringing Down the House, but spent his career in and around the fields of analytics and data science”
2018
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How I Built This with Guy Raz · Sep 2018
“the story behind the Today Show was that I wrote my first book. About about cosmetics, about makeup”