Revenue of 1 million per day. In the eventual scrutiny received from the department of justice which shut it down in 2011. This program is about 40 minutes. Good afternoon, thank you all for joining us and thank you all watching on booktv on cspan2, you are joining billions around the world. When they asked me to come here and interview ben mezrich had jumped at the chance. He is one of my favorite people in the literary world. A lot of you know the film based on his books as well as his books, the accidental billionaires became the social network, bringing down the house became 21 and you title the book sex on the moon because you knew they would never change that title for a film. The book we are talking about who dealt their way to a billiondollar online poker empireand how it all came crashing down. About how a few Enterprising Program players created an empire sort of. I want to begin by drawing your attention to for my many the greatest author jacket photo since hemingway, right
We were just waiting for opinions to greg. Benefits is really true, but it was in our interest for him to say that. Oddly enough, check presented up sort this radical feeling over there in france and before he left, he told thomas paine, williams short, another abolitionists over there going to get back to america, he was going to train slaves, settle them on land at sharecroppers and the certainty they would become good citizens and free people in the United States. But when he got back to the United States, things changed. He came back with his daughter, pat c. It turned out she needed a dowry because she met her husband, Thomas Mann Randolph and they decided to get married in a hurry from the only way jefferson could set them up in the household was to give them land and a lot of slaves. He gave his daughter 25, little and big. He began to think of rebuilding monticello and he needed money they needed to rely on to retrain displaced worse. He suddenly called upon them to acquire a f
With the changes as of the population as the soldier evacuates. It seems to me that the of military force is almost unfair and requires specialists and a culture is different because in middle east but the concept of honor and shame is much more powerful. And also they have to be schooled in psychological warfare. So with the United States and the middle east but to come from this country to do the job to better enhance by the schiller the sheer military. U. S. Army special forces is organized over different regions of those that focus on that type of in that part of the world get that type of training and talk about the local Security Forces on the civil side typically usaid has people staying in countries for multiple years. The state department often has the challenge with locations in the fryer medications with the people who have a skill set that they also said people to Language Training but in afghanistan was the afghan Hands Program as an attempt to get out of this career menta
Hy was already, as a writer came to respect him as a man and as a craftsman how he went about making extremely infectiously readable pieces of work, it is a great honor to be here. I will begin by asking for those who havent read your book can you give us an overview, and why this story drew you in. This is the story of a group of Fraternity Brothers from the university of montana, regular kids, most of them were very poor, was so poor he told a cow to buy his first car, they were montana kids, they sold poker in the basement of a bar and one got the idea is that putting poker on line and make a lot of money and online poker hadnt started yet. Only one other company back in 1999 so they built one of the first and Biggest Online poker sides. The move most of the fraternity to costar rico which was wallace while west craziness and kind of built this over a few years to a Million Dollar did business. And many billions of dollars. And and online poker, and online poker would be considered
There are still crazy people and to follow crazy people. We have had demagogues route history but what i have heard from other people is when minutes in is discussed they compare him to hitler. They said, baysed on your interaction with him, are you surprised Charles Manson did what he did . And dr. Smith said, no, im not surprised Charles Manson led people to these terrible acts. Im surprised there are so many a potential charl Charles Mansons who are still around. Its going to happen and keep happening, but if we can just demystify these people, and if my book accomplishes nothing else, i hope it is demystification, he is going to be with us but let it by the truth about him rather than the selfserving legends he has put out there. I thank everybody for coming out. So nice to see you. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] visit booktv. Org to watch any of the programs you see here online. Type the author or the title in the search bar and click