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
Paperback. Pub Date :2013-05-28 Pages: 304 Language: English Publisher: William Morrow Straight Flush is the true story of a group of University of Montana frat brothers who turned a weekly poker game in the basement of a local bar into one of the largest online poker companies in the world. At its height. the groups online empire was bringing in revenues of over a million dollars a day. The industry they launched grew so huge so fast. and in such a grey area of ??US and international law. at first it was never really clear whether their actions were legal or criminal.From setting up their operations in Costa Rica. to their efforts at building a veil of legitimacy in Vancouver; from embracing a hedonistic lifestyle of girls. drugs and money to becoming some of the richest people in the world; from engaging in operations against their competitors that sometimes escalated into...
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Ben Mezrich graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in 1991. He has published twelve books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Accidental Billionaires, which was adapted into the Academy Award-winning film The Social Network, and Bringing Down the House, which has sold more than 1.5 million copies in twelve languages and became the basis for the Kevin Spacey movie 21. Mezrich has also published the national bestsellers Sex on the Moon, Ugly Americans, Rigged, and Busting Vegas. He lives in Boston.
“The reigning cowboy of creative nonfiction.” (The Oregonian)
“A breakneck retelling of how a bunch of closely knit fraternity brothers built an online poker empire. ... Fast-paced and wild.” (Kirkus)
“A near-perfect specimen of pulp nonfiction.” (New York Times)
“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)
“Engrossing. ... I can’t wait for the movie.” (Boston Globe)
“A breakneck retelling of how a bunch of closely knit fraternity brothers built an online poker empire. ... Fast-paced and wild.” (Kirkus)
“A near-perfect specimen of pulp nonfiction.” (New York Times)
“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)
“Engrossing. ... I can’t wait for the movie.” (Boston Globe)
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- PublisherWilliam Morrow
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 0062277715
- ISBN 13 9780062277718
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages304
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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 . . .
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