The exclusive, pulseâ€"pounding followâ€"up to Bringing Down the House -- where the stakes are higher, the players bolder, and the scheme more highâ€"risk.

For nearly five years, Semyon Dukach was known as The Darling Of Las Vegas -- the biggest high roller to hit sin city in decades, a hotshot kid with a seemingly unlimitted bankroll and an even more unlimited lust for big money action. He'd hit the city every weekend, a string of beautiful women at his sideâ€"throwing cash at the blackjack tables in increasingly enormous amounts. Some believed he was a Russian arms dealer, others believed he was a pop star from Eastern Europe. But the truth was even more fantastic: He was a twenty one year old grad student who spoke five languages, an expert in computers and mathematics. He had a plan that would one day make him richer than anyone could possibly imagine. He used his genius to create a dangerous moneyâ€"making scheme called "Busting the Dealer"â€"a scheme only a mathematics genius could have created. More dangerous than the simpler card counting he had been practicing with other palsâ€"bolder, badder, more riskyâ€""Busting the Dealer" was easier for the dealer to tell when one was practicing it.

With "Busting the Dealer," The Darling of Las Vegas quickly became a legend in the world of cards and casinos; the chronicle of his exploits are a Hollywood movie come to life. He became the only person banned from the island of Aruba. He was held, at gunpoint, in a cave in Monte Carlo and told by liaisons of the royal family that if he ever returned, he'd be murdered. After a deathâ€"defying plane crash, he crawled into a burning Cessnaâ€"on two broken feetâ€"to rescue four hundred thousand dollars won from an Atlantic City casino. He hit cruise ships, charity balls, wherever there was a game worth beating, anywhere in the world. Along the way, he fell in love with his best friend's girlfriend, was betrayed by his own teammatesâ€"and nearly lost his life.

This is the startling true story of another group of MIT friends who changed the course of Vegas history.