Should they fold—or double down and ride their hot hand? Impossible to put down, Straight Flush is an exclusive, never-before-seen look behind the headlines of one of the wildest business stories of the past decade.
Straight Flush by"Ben Mezrich"
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House—the sources for the films The Social Network and 21—comes the larger-than-life true tale of a group of American college buddies who brilliantly built a billion-dollar online poker colossus based out of the hedonistic paradise of Costa Rica. One problem: the U.S. Department of Justice was gunning for them. . . . Based on extensive insider interviews and participation, acclaimed author Ben Mezrich's Straight Flush tells the captivating rags-to-riches tale of a group of University of Montana frat brothers who turned a weekly poker game in the basement of a local dive bar into AbsolutePoker.com, one of the largest online companies in the world, on par with some of the behemoths of the Internet. At its height, Absolute Poker was an online empire earning more than a million dollars a day, following savvy business strategy and even better luck. Its founders set up their operations in the exotic jungle paradise of Costa Rica, embracing an outrageous lifestyle of girls, parties, and money. Meanwhile, the gray area of U.S. and international law in which the company operated was becoming a lot more risky, and soon the U.S. Department of Justice had placed a bull's-eye on Absolute Poker. Should they fold—or double down and ride their hot hand? Impossible to put down, Straight Flush is an exclusive, never-before-seen look behind the headlines of one of the wildest business stories of the past decade.
Straight Flush
By:"Ben Mezrich"
Published on 2013-05-28 by Harper Collins
BOOKS ID : 5IaSTC3fDcUC
Ebook Title : Straight Flush
ETAG : G8PCu6r83vY
ISBN_13 Code : 9780062240118
ISBN_10 Code : 0062240110
Book Print Type : BOOK
Rank : 31 for keyword gambling podcast
Book Author :"Ben Mezrich"
Publisher : Harper Collins
Book Pages Count : 304
Print Type : BOOK
Book's Categories :"Games & Activities"
Books Language : en
Text to Speech Access : ALLOWED_FOR_ACCESSIBILITY
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