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Thursday, July 11, 2024

Texas mayor cleared in ethics probe related to Doug Polk group's attempt to open Dallas-area card room

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The mayor of the Dallas, Texas suburb of Farmers Branch, where a group of investors fronted by Doug Polk hoped to open a social-poker club, ...
Wednesday, January 27, 2021

BEN MEZRICH’S “STRAIGHT FLUSH” LITERARY FRAUD, PART 11: THE SILLY POKERNEWS INTERVIEW

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(Author's note: This 11th entry in the series on Ben Mezrich's fraudulent take on the Absolute Poker scandal wasn't part of the ...

BEN MEZRICH’S “STRAIGHT FLUSH” LITERARY FRAUD, PART 10: ASSORTED HILARITIES, LINKS AND REVIEWS

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19th June 2013 Ben Mezrich’s latest literary fraud, Straight Flush , continues to amaze the poker world with its blatant rewriting of histor...

BEN MEZRICH’S “STRAIGHT FLUSH” LITERARY FRAUD, PART 9: RESELLING A FAKED CORPORATE SALE

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13th June 2013 Among the core lies served up by Ben Mezrich in Straight Flush , which is easily the biggest literary fraud of this decade, i...

BEN MEZRICH’S “STRAIGHT FLUSH” LITERARY FRAUD, PART 8: THE RIDICULOUS LIFESTYLE JUSTIFICATIONS

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10th June 2013 This time out, let’s veer away from the tedious but factual evidence presented in this lengthy series’ previous posts, all of...
Tuesday, January 26, 2021

BEN MEZRICH’S “STRAIGHT FLUSH” LITERARY FRAUD, PART 7: THE PAYMENT-PROCESSING AND BANKING FALSIFICATIONS

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10th June 2013 If you haven’t checked in on the story of the massive literary fraud perpetrated upon the reading public by Ben Mezrich in St...

BEN MEZRICH’S “STRAIGHT FLUSH” LITERARY FRAUD, PART 6: IGNORING SCOTT TOM’S FUNDS-TRANSFER INCRIMINATION

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5th June 2013 Here’s more visual evidence for those souls who still might not be convinced that Ben Mezrich’s new book, Straight Flush , is ...

BEN MEZRICH’S “STRAIGHT FLUSH” LITERARY FRAUD, PART 5: THE CHEATING SCANDAL TIMELINE FALSIFICATION

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4th June 2013 There may be no more greater literary sin than intentionally falsifying the sequence in which events occur in order to pass of...

BEN MEZRICH’S “STRAIGHT FLUSH” LITERARY FRAUD, PART 4: THE RETURN OF THE UNNAMED LOW-LEVEL EMPLOYEE

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3rd June 2013 @AllenPrep @brettrichey @kevinphwap gotta write the story based on actual evidence, not hearsay. Scandal is presented fairly. ...

BEN MEZRICH’S “STRAIGHT FLUSH” LITERARY FRAUD, PART 3: THE BIGGEST LIE ABOUT THE PLANE-CRASH STORY

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2nd June 2013 Understanding the depths of authorial fraud committed by Ben Mezrich in his latest book, Straight Flush , requires nothing mor...
Monday, January 25, 2021

BEN MEZRICH’S “STRAIGHT FLUSH” LITERARY FRAUD, PART 2: THE IMPERATIVE BLACKJACK OMISSION

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31st May 2013 Of all the underlying themes in Ben Mezrich’s new narrative non-fiction book, Straight Flush , none are more important than it...