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Zusatztext "Engrossing. ... I can't wait for the movie." Informationen zum Autor Ben Mezrich graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in 1991. He has published twelve books! including the New York Times bestsellers The Accidental Billionaires ! which was adapted into the Academy Award-winning film The Social Network ! and Bringing Down the House ! which has sold more than 1.5 million copies in twelve languages and became the basis for the Kevin Spacey movie 21 . Mezrich has also published the national bestsellers Sex on the Moon ! Ugly Americans ! Rigged ! and Busting Vegas . He lives in Boston. Klappentext From Ben Mezrich, the New York Times bestselling author of Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House —the sources for the films The Social Network and 21 —comes the captivating tale of a group of college buddies 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 the behemoths of the Internet. At its height, Absolute Poker was an online empire earning more than a million dollars a day. 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 riskier, 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. Zusammenfassung From the New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House —the sources for the film The Social Network and 21 —comes the larger-than-life 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. Based on extensive insider interviews and participation, Straight Flush tells of the company’s initial operations in the exotic jungle paradise of Costa Rica—where its founders embraced an outrageous lifestyle of girls, parties, and money—and of the gray area of U.S. and international law in which they created an industry. Soon, the U.S. Department of Justice was gunning for them… 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. ...
