By Ben Mezrich
From the recent York occasions bestselling writer of The unintended Billionaires and Bringing Down the House—the resources for the movies The Social community and 21—comes the larger-than-life precise story of a bunch of yank collage associates who brilliantly equipped a billion-dollar on-line poker colossus dependent out of the hedonistic paradise of Costa Rica.
One challenge: the U.S. division of Justice was once gunning for them. . . .
Based on broad insider interviews and participation, acclaimed writer Ben Mezrich's directly Flush tells the desirable rags-to-riches story of a gaggle of college of Montana frat brothers who became a weekly poker video game within the basement of an area dive bar into AbsolutePoker.com, one of many greatest on-line businesses on this planet, on par with a few of the behemoths of the net. At its top, Absolute Poker used to be an internet empire incomes greater than one million funds an afternoon, following savvy company approach or even larger good fortune. Its founders arrange their operations within the unique jungle paradise of Costa Rica, embracing an outrageous way of life of women, events, and money.
Meanwhile, the grey sector of U.S. and foreign legislation during which the corporate operated used to be turning into much more dicy, and shortly the U.S. division of Justice had positioned a bull's-eye on Absolute Poker. may still they fold—or double down and journey their sizzling hand? very unlikely to place down, directly Flush is an unique, never-before-seen glance in the back of the headlines of 1 of the wildest enterprise tales of the prior decade.
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