Semyon Dukach and his fellow students at MIT were so successful at card counting in the early 1990s that they took Las Vegas casinos for upwards of $10 million. And Bringing Down the House, the international bestseller written about their daring exploits, is to be launched as a major Hollywood film, produced by Kevin Spacey. After tracking down Dukach to Tokyo - via Boston and Moscow - the leader of the famous card counting gang agreed to be interviewed by InsideEdge. Imagine walking into a casino and knowing you were going to win.

Imagine that the more you played, the more the odds were stacked in your favour and all you had to do was reach across the baize and keep scooping up the chips.