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 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.
 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 |
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
- 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.
- "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.
- Wall Street Journal: Bluffers and Bandits
- Ben Mezrich’s "Straight Flush" Literary Fraud
- USA Today: All bets are off in 'Straight Flush'