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2013 book by Ben Mezrich

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...
Hardcover edition
AuthorBen Mezrich
LanguageEnglish
SubjectOn-line gambling
GenreNon-fiction
PublisherWilliam Morrow and Company
Publication dateMay 28, 2013
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint, e-book
Pages304 pp.
ISBN978-0062240095
Preceded bySex on the Moon 

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 is a book by Ben Mezrich. The text was published on May 28, 2013, by William Morrow and Company. Straight Flush tells the story of a group of University of Montana students who turned their weekly poker game into AbsolutePoker.com, one of the largest online gambling companies in the world.

Reception

Straight Flush received mixed to scathing reviews. James McManus wrote in The Wall Street Journal that Straight Flush was "not just a book about clueless adolescent venality, 'Straight Flush' is that sorry thing itself, and in spades." Haley Hintze, a writer who helped uncover the Absolute Poker scandal, labeled the book a "literary fraud" in an eleven part series.

Don Oldenburg writing in USA Today notes one of the book's problems is "how much Mezrich himself seems in awe of" the sordid activity he is describing.

See also

References

  1. 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... by Ben Merrich. ISBN 0062240099.
  2. "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 ... by Ben Mezrich (Goodreads Author)". goodreads.com. Retrieved February 19, 2015.
  3. Wall Street Journal: Bluffers and Bandits
  4. Ben Mezrich’s "Straight Flush" Literary Fraud
  5. USA Today: All bets are off in 'Straight Flush'

External links

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