Straight Flush (book)

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
Author	Ben Mezrich
Country	United States
Language	English
Subject	On-line gambling
Genre	Non-fiction
Publisher	William Morrow and Company
Publication date	May 28, 2013
Media type	Print, e-book
Pages	304 pp.
ISBN	978-0062240095
Preceded by	Sex 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.^[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.

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[]

• The Eudaemonic Pie

References[]

External links[]

• Official website

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