Bringing Down The House meets The Accidental Billionaires, 21 meets The Social Network u Straight Flush is the true story of a group of University of Montana frat brothers who turned a weekly poker game in the basement of a local Missoula bar into one of the largest online poker companies in the world, valued in the billions. A true rags to riches tale, this is an adventure story on a scale that defies the imagination: at its height, the group's online empire was bringing in revenues of over a million dollars a day u putting their company's valuation on par with the behemoths of the Internet u while the entire management maintained an average age wavering between the late teens and early twenties. The industry they launched grew so huge so fast, and in such a grey area of US and international law, at first it was never really clear whether their actions were legal or a crime; in retrospect, as the group now admit, they were either blatant criminals u or some of the greatest entrepreneurs the world had ever seen. From setting up their operations in the exotic jungle paradise of Costa Rica, to their efforts at building a veil of legitimacy in Vancouver; from their tragic-comic quest to protect their rapidly growing earnings via banks in Belize and Switzerland, to the sophisticated systems of shadow-financing they built via international banks and secretive hedge funds around the globe; from embracing a hedonistic lifestyle of girls, drugs, and money to becoming serious businessmen, with bankrolls that made them some of the richest people in the world; from engaging in operations against their competitors that sometimes escalated into near all out wars, involving private security forces bristling with machine guns, to the legal battles that finally resulted in one of them heading to prison and another living life on the run, as a wanted fugitive u Straight Flush is an exclusive look behind the headlines of one of the biggest stories of the past decade.