Straight_Flush_(book)

<i>Straight Flush</i> (book)

Straight Flush (book)

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 is a book by Ben Mezrich. The text was published on May 28, 2013, by William Morrow and Company.[1][2] 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.

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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."[3] Haley Hintze, a writer who helped uncover the Absolute Poker scandal, labeled the book a "literary fraud" in an eleven part series.[4]

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.[5]

See also

References

  1. [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. [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. [3]
    Wall Street Journal: Bluffers and Bandits
  4. [4]
    Ben Mezrich’s "Straight Flush" Literary Fraud
  5. [5]
    USA Today: All bets are off in 'Straight Flush'


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