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Straight Flush (book)

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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...
Hardcover edition
AuthorBen Mezrich
LanguageEnglish
SubjectOn-line gambling
GenreNon-fiction
PublisherWilliam Morrow and Company
Publication date
May 28, 2013
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint, e-book
Pages304 pp.
ISBN978-0062240095
Preceded bySex 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.

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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]

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