{"id":1621,"date":"2012-08-20T05:25:56","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T09:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/?p=1621"},"modified":"2012-08-29T05:33:50","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T09:33:50","slug":"ben-mezrich-absolute-poker-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/ben-mezrich-absolute-poker-book","title":{"rendered":"Author Ben Mezrich to write Absolute Poker Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Ben Mezrich is a well known non-fiction author who has taken up a new project that focuses on the defunct Absolute Poker and its founders. As you may already know, Absolute was a fairly scandal-ridden poker site that went down after Black Friday along with millions of dollars in players\u2019 money.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s still too early to see what angle the author will take with this story, but Mezrich has hinted at writing a great deal about those who started Absolute Poker \u2013 a group of University of Montana students. One of the hints Mezrich gave us was when he said, “They\u2019re brilliant kids who built an empire in a way. And now they\u2019re being persecuted because they did something to me that was very American.\u201d<\/p>\n

The only problem with this book idea as far as the poker world is concerned involves the large amount of negative feelings that most players have for Absolute Poker. Like we discussed before, Absolute Poker was responsible for losing millions of dollars in player deposits when they went offline. Furthermore, there was once a superuser scandal at Absolute that gave certain players the ability to see their opponents\u2019 hole cards.<\/p>\n

Ben Mezrich\u2019s name may not be familiar to everybody, but the work he\u2019s done should ring a few bells. He is widely recognized for his book \u201cBringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions,\u201d which served as the basis for the movie 21<\/em>. \u00a0Additionally, he wrote, \u201cThe Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, A Take of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal,\u201d which spawned The Social Network<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ben Mezrich is a well known non-fiction author who has taken up a new project that focuses on the defunct Absolute Poker and its founders. As you may already know, Absolute was a fairly scandal-ridden poker site that went down after Black Friday along with millions of dollars in players\u2019 money. It\u2019s still too early […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[957,323,955,954,11,956],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1621"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1624,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621\/revisions\/1624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}