Straight Flush: The True Story of Six College Friends Who Dealt Their Way to a Billion-Dollar Online Poker Empire--And How It All Came Crashing Down . . . - Softcover

Mezrich, Ben

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062240102 ISBN 13: 9780062240101

Publisher: William Morrow & Company, 2014

Synopsis

The larger-than-life true tale of how a few frat brothers from Montana turned a weekly poker game in a dive bar into one of the most lucrative online companies in history

ased on extensive insider interviews, Ben Mezrich--bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House--chronicles the creation of AbsolutePoker.com, including the company's initial operations in the jungle paradise of Costa Rica where its founders lived an outrageous lifestyle of girls, parties, and money; and of the gray area of U.S. and international law in which they created an industry. Soon, the U. S. Department of Justice was gunning for them. . . . Should they fold--or double down and ride their hot hand? Impossible to put down, Straight Flush is an exclusive, never-before-seen look at one of the wildest business stories of the Internet age.

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Review:

"Engrossing. ... I can't wait for the movie."--Boston Globe

"The reigning cowboy of creative nonfiction."--The Oregonian

"The action is nonstop. ... Mezrich follows [the] friends from their University of Montana frat house to Costa Rica and Canada as the young entrepreneurs' extravagant lifestyle of booze, fast cars, and hot women spirals into death threats, auto accidents, 24-hour bodyguards, and federal indictments."--Booklist

"A near-perfect specimen of pulp nonfiction."--New York Times

"A breakneck retelling of how a bunch of closely knit fraternity brothers built an online poker empire. ... Fast-paced and wild."--Kirkus Reviews

Book Description:

The New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House returns with the larger-than-life true tale of a group of hard-partying frat brothers who built a multi-billion-dollar on-line poker colossus – and what happened when the Feds shut down their operation, sending them on the run.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0062240102
• ISBN 13: 9780062240101
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304