By Eli K.
Straight Flush is a book about six college friends who build a online poker empire (called absolute poker), than watch it fall apart. Through interviews, author Ben Mezrich tells the story of these college kids. The story was very interesting, but seemed to interesting to be true, so I did some research. After reading the book you feel like the creators of absolute poker were wrongly accused, but after reading countless news articles made me think elsewise. After reading the news articles is seems like most of the book was made up or over exaggerated. Ben Mezrich glorifies the creators of absolute poker, but in reality they are criminals who got what they deserved. They stole millions from their user, tried to cover it up and when the site got shut down could not give their users their money back. In this book Mezrich tries to blame this on the Department of Justice, but in reality they straight up stole the money and tried to run away with it. If you want to read a book of lies, I highly recommend this book, but if you don't want to read pure fiction don't get this book.
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