Straight Flush LP: 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...

From Ben Mezrich the New York Times bestselling author of Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the Housethe sources for the films The Social Network and 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 AbsolutePokercom 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 moneyMeanwhile the gray area of US and international law in which the company operated was becoming riskier and soon the US Department of Justice had placed a bulls-eye on Absolute Poker Should they foldor 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.