Repeat Until Rich

A Professional Card Counter's Chronicle of the Blackjack Wars

By: Josh Axelrad

Narrated by: Josh Axelrad

A deliciously wry, edge-of-your-seat memoir of making a fortune with card counters across a wide swath of blackjack in America

At 24, Josh Axelrad held down a respectable and ominously dull job on Wall Street. Adventure was a tuna fish sandwich instead of the usual turkey for lunch. 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. The stranger was a blackjack card counter, and he sold Axelrad on the vision of Vegas with all its intrigue, adventure - and cash.

Repeat Until Rich is Axelrad's taut, atmospheric, and darkly hilarious account of ditching the mundane and entering the alternative universe of professional blackjack. Axelrad has one thing in common with his team: they all thrived in the straight world, found success boring, and vowed to make life more exotic. Axelrad adopts Jon Roth's "repeat until rich" philosophy - and from his strategy and skill spring hasty retreats across casino floors, high-speed car chases, arrests on dubious grounds, and the massive cash paydays that make it all worthwhile.

Filled with actual bad guys, chase scenes, and high stakes, Repeat Until Rich offers an intoxicating, unprecedented view of the dangerous allure of living off the cards and one's wits.

©2019 Blackstone Publishing (P)2019

refreshing honest look at a professional gambler

I was skeptical of this book at first but something about the authors descriptions made me keep listening. There are twists and turns and I think anyone who's into poker or risk or gambling at all will enjoy it

excellent story

This was a lot better than I expected it to be with a unexpected twist. His reading of this story alone is worth the listen.

The truth revealed

I bought this book thinking it would be an exciting book about blackjack. It is that. It’s also unvarnished look into the myth that professional gambling is different from just gambling. The addiction hides in every deck of cards. The writing is great and so is the reading. If you think you want to try card counting, buy this book first.

Just ok

Similar story to Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich, but with lower highs and sadder lows. Better to read that book

Future card counters must read

Great book to see into the life of a card counter. I’m getting into it myself and it’s grounding to read this