Ben Mezrich knows a good scam story to cover and his Poker company founding book called "Straight Flush was read with much gusto here in the offices. This book recalls the rise and fall o Absolutepoker.com and its frat boy obnoxious founders as it was one of many early on-line poker sites that gave dirty money hoarders and money launders opportunities to increase their shares. The fouding of this poker site by Garin Gutovensen, Pete Barovich, Hilt Tatum, Scott Tom, and brent Buckley is a story of five young men who should never been allowed to access capital for such a obvious venture open to illegal activity and eventually not if but when it would get in the crosshairs of authorities.
A group of University of Montana backward college students borrowed some of daddies money and jumped into the unregulated world of on-line poker as the friends set up operation in Costa Rica thinking they were above the law and taxes. These fools used the funds to fund their extravagant lifestyle that eventually got the department of Justice to seek this company out among others crimes accused against them. 
These guys used their access to banks and own personal valuation and money funny phony numbers to claim tis website as some tremendous money making machines. Mezrich goes trough all the cheating, scandals, raiding in this company's short tenure until the government seized their sites and assets from the numerous money laundering and bank fraud that these guys were committing so they can go to Central America and live like kings. One of the greatest accomplishments by government was to sting these on-line poker games and operations of these entrepreneurs who were just basically gaming the system and determine their own salaries.
This was a globalized game where many players consulted each other in setting up this industry to give wealth hoarders an avenue to play with their monopoly money. This book details one case of Absolutepoker.com, which is one of many through the years in international casino investment fraudulent attacks in class warfare by the one percent.
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