Straight Flush

  • Author: Ben Mezrich
  • Narrator: Sean Pratt
  • Publisher: HarperCollins USA
  • Duration: 7:09:29
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Synopsis

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House—the sources for the films The Social Network and 21— comes the larger-than-life true tale of a group of American college buddies who brilliantly built a billion-dollar online poker colossus based out of the hedonistic paradise of Costa Rica.

One problem: the U.S. Department of Justice was gunning for them. . . .

Based on extensive insider interviews and participation, acclaimed author Ben Mezrich's Straight Flush tells the captivating rags-to-riches tale of a group of University of Montana frat brothers who turned a weekly poker game in the basement of a local dive bar into AbsolutePoker.com, one of the largest online companies in the world, on par with some of the behemoths of the Internet. At its height, Absolute Poker was an online empire earning more than a million dollars a day, following savvy business strategy and even better luck. Its founders set up their operations in the exotic jungle paradise of Costa Rica, embracing an outrageous lifestyle of girls, parties, and money.

Meanwhile, the gray area of U.S. and international law in which the company operated was becoming a lot more risky, and soon the U.S. Department of Justice had placed a bull's-eye on Absolute Poker. Should they fold—or double down and ride their hot hand? Impossible to put down, Straight Flush is an exclusive, never-before-seen look behind the headlines of one of the wildest business stories of the past decade.

Chapters

  • StraightFlush_21_Chapter19

    Duration: 09min
  • StraightFlush_22_Chapter20

    Duration: 09min
  • StraightFlush_23_Chapter21

    Duration: 05min
  • StraightFlush_24_Chapter22

    Duration: 04min
  • StraightFlush_25_Chapter23

    Duration: 17min
  • StraightFlush_26_Chapter24

    Duration: 17min
  • StraightFlush_27_Chapter25

    Duration: 12min
  • StraightFlush_28_Chapter26

    Duration: 24min
  • StraightFlush_29_Chapter27

    Duration: 14min
  • StraightFlush_30_Chapter28

    Duration: 12min
  • StraightFlush_31_Chapter29

    Duration: 14min
  • StraightFlush_32_Chapter30

    Duration: 05min
  • StraightFlush_33_Chapter31

    Duration: 05min
  • StraightFlush_34_Chapter32

    Duration: 13min
  • StraightFlush_35_Chapter33

    Duration: 08min
  • StraightFlush_36_Epilogue

    Duration: 03min
  • StraightFlush_37_Credits

    Duration: 41s
  • sample

    Duration: 01min
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