The most powerful part of the text had to have been his change from a naïve college boy to a professional gambler. The book is structured around this transformation, but it is a true story of how money can change a person, for the better or worse. It is really surprising that it is a non-fiction book because I got really into it and couldn’t put it down.  The most instantly exciting would have to have been when they were going on a big run in the MGM Grand and then got caught and almost backroomed. It was also really a big rollercoaster of emotions with Fisher ditching them, him visiting his family, and understanding he needed to leave the "game". 

The thing I liked most about the book was how it was a fiction non-fiction. There is no way that Kevin would remember all those hands that were described in this book, but there would be no way to make this interesting without putting made-up hands in the book. It was a great job by the author to make the whole thing a lot more realistic and less boring. I couldn't put it down at all and I finished it within a day.

The whole book was like an in depth, vegas-style, "Clean Well-Lighted Place". Kevin and the rest of the team started as the young waiter and Mickey started as the older waiter. Later on Kevin became the older waiter when he left gambling, Mickey became the old man and was abandoned and forgotten, and Fisher's team stayed the young waiter because they wouldn't learn.