American Roulette
Richard Marcus
Subtitled "How I Turned the Odds Upside Down---My Wild Twenty-Five-Year Ride Ripping Off the World's Casinos" is the story Richard Marcus tells about his career of ripping off casinos. The book follows Marcus, along with several of the world's great professional casino cheaters, as he travels from Las Vegas to London and Monte Carlo, pilfering large sums of money from casinos by performing sleight of hand magic tricks with gaming chips. As skilled cheaters, they back up their moves with psychological setups to convince pit bosses that they're watching legitimate high rollers getting lucky, while in fact they're being ripped off blind. The book has also been released under the name "The Great Casino Heist."
First Edition: Published by St. Martin's Press in 2003, 384 pages, 9.5"x6.5" hardcover. This is an overstock edition and is in good but not perfect condition. Original price: US $24.95.