Josh Axelrad is a dude. We all like to dream about living the life of a high-roller, swanning around Vegas with a trophy blonde in tow and a piles of Lincoln green in the Presidential suite of the Wynn, but few of us have either the intelligence, initiative or pure brass bollocks to actually tell the boss to fuck off, forget about the mortgage and gamble with life. The risks are too great. As Axelrad himself has discovered. Despite winning some $700,000 conning casinos with his cunning card-counting know-how he has since plummeted back to earth with a thud. But he had his scaled the heights, lived the dream and has written a book to recount it all. But was it really worth it, Josh? Damn right it was. Read more.