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- ISBN
- 9780062240101
- Book Title
- 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 ...
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Item Length
- 8 in
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Genre
- Computers, Games & Activities, Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics
- Topic
- Programming / Games, Card Games / Poker, General, Gambling / General (See Also Self-Help / Compulsive Behavior / Gambling), Free Enterprise
- Item Weight
- 8.2 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.3 in
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0062240102
ISBN-13
9780062240101
eBay Product ID (ePID)
171793581
Product Key Features
Book Title
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 ...
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Programming / Games, Card Games / Poker, General, Gambling / General (See Also Self-Help / Compulsive Behavior / Gambling), Free Enterprise
Publication Year
2014
Genre
Computers, Games & Activities, Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
8.2 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.3 in
Additional Product Features
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Trade
Reviews
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., A breakneck retelling of how a bunch of closely knit fraternity brothers built an online poker empire. … Fast-paced and wild. , "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 Reviews "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, ' 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)
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., From the New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House --the sources for the film The Social Network and 21 --comes the larger-than-life 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. Based on extensive insider interviews and participation, Straight Flush tells of the company's initial operations in the exotic jungle paradise of Costa Rica--where its founders embraced 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 behind the headlines of one of the wildest business stories of the past decade., From the New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House--the sources for the film The Social Network and 21--comes the larger-than-life 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. Based on extensive insider interviews and participation, Straight Flush tells of the company's initial operations in the exotic jungle paradise of Costa Rica--where its founders embraced 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 behind the headlines of one of the wildest business stories of the past decade.
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