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, Ben Mezrich

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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

by Ben Mezrich
Paperback

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House—the inspirations for The Social Network and 21—comes a wild, true story of risk, fortune, and downfall in the digital age.

In Straight Flush, Ben Mezrich chronicles the unbelievable rise and spectacular crash of AbsolutePoker.com, the billion-dollar online gambling empire built by six college friends from the University of Montana. What began as a basement poker game quickly evolved into an international phenomenon run from Costa Rica’s sun-soaked paradise—where fast money, faster women, and moral gray zones blurred the line between genius and recklessness.

Drawing on extensive insider interviews and firsthand accounts, Mezrich exposes the dizzying highs of the online poker boom, the lavish excess of its young founders, and the legal firestorm that ultimately brought it all crashing down.

Fast-paced, cinematic, and impossible to put down, Straight Flush is a true story of ambition and addiction—a real-world high-stakes game where the biggest gamble was everything.