Lucky Devils
The True Story of Three Rebel Gamblers Who Beat the Odds and Changed the Game
$50.57
- Hardcover
288 pages
- Release Date
13 April 2026
Summary
The rollicking true story of a trio of gamblers hell-bent on beating the house, who used their ingenuity to rake in hundreds of millions of dollars, transforming the way betting games are played.
In the late 1970s, three men declared war on the casino. They were card counters and misfits who arrived in Las Vegas determined to make their fortune. When blackjack got too easy–and they got kicked out of too many casinos–they aimed for bigger prey. Could they predict a rou…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781668080894 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1668080893 |
| Author: | Kit Chellel |
| Publisher: | Atria Books |
| Imprint: | Atria Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 13 April 2026 |
| Weight: | 499g |
| Dimensions: | 232mm x 150mm x 30mm |
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Critics Review
“An addictive profile of the rule breakers who anticipated gambling’s data-driven future. Readers will be thrilled.”
–Publishers Weekly
“Lucky Devils is a fabulous book, perfect for the current moment. Readymade for the movies, its tale of the brilliant eccentrics who outsmarted the system offers vicarious thrills of the most satisfying kind, especially as dealt by the dexterous hands of Kit Chellel, whose prose is as kinetic as a ball on a roulette wheel. You can’t keep your eyes off it.”
–Julian Sancton, New York Times bestselling author of Madhouse at the End of the Earth
“Ever wonder what it’s like to make your fortune as a winning gambler? Lucky Devils takes you there.”
–Edward O. Thorp, New York Times bestselling author of Beat the Dealer and A Man For All Markets
“Cheating at poker and other gambling games has been around forever, but this diabolically entertaining new book brings us up to the minute–to the nanosecond, even. In highbrow streetwise prose, Chellel reveals how the cunning designers of AI-powered algorithms threaten to make normal human betting decisions quaintly passé.”
–James McManus, New York Times bestselling author of Positively Fifth Street and Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker
“There’s simply no one better at chronicling the shady, hackable, and wildly anarchic world of gambling, and with Lucky Devils, Kit Chellel spins what amounts to an exuberant origin story. It’d be a suckers bet not to read this book.”
–Brad Stone, New York Times bestselling author of The Everything Store and Amazon Unbound
About The Author
Kit Chellel
Kit Chellel is a reporter at Bloomberg and Businessweek Magazine, covering sports gambling, financial scandals, state-sponsored espionage, and more. He has received a Gerald Loeb Award, an Overseas Press Club Award, and a feature reporting prize from the New York Press Club. He is coauthor, with Matthew Campbell, of Dead in the Water, which was shortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award.
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