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The biggest bluff

how I learned to pay attention, master myself, and win
2020
The author shares her journey of becoming a gambler, including her big winnings and the lessons she learned about human nature and herself.

The poker diaries

2007
Fifteen-year-old Lulu finds herself in a high-stacks, very illegal poker game in an attempt to win back what her father lost, and hoping her mother, who is dating the tough-on-crime mayor, won't find out.

Overturned

Nikki Tate's father has been on death row for killing his best friend in a gambling dispute, but he has always maintained his innocence, and now his conviction has been overturned and he is back at the casino, where high school junior Nikki has been operating illegal poker games in the hopes of saving enough money to get out of Vegas after graduation--and now he is determined to find the real killer, and Nikki is inevitably drawn into his dangerous search for the truth.

No limit

Sixteen-year-old Denn finds himself alienating both friends and family when he becomes obsessed with playing high-stakes poker with adult gamblers.
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Overturned

Nikki Tate's father has been on death row for killing his best friend in a gambling dispute, but he has always maintained his innocence, and now his conviction has been overturned and he is back at the casino, where high school junior Nikki has been operating illegal poker games in the hopes of saving enough money to get out of Vegas after graduation--and now he is determined to find the real killer, and Nikki is inevitably drawn into his dangerous search for the truth.

The hand you're dealt

a novel
2008
When seventeen-year-old Huck's vindictive math teacher wins the town poker tournament and takes the winner's watch away from Huck's father while he is in a coma, Huck vows to get even with him no matter what it takes.
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Poker face

2013
The Justice League battles the Royal Flush Gang in Las Vegas, and Booster Gold learns why the team pays Superman so much respect.

The rogues' game

2005
An enigmatic man arrives in a small West Texas town, claiming he wants to join a high stakes poker game that has been going on every weekend for fifty years, but as he joins the players, they soon learn his more sinister motives for coming to town.

The hand you're dealt

a novel
2010
When seventeen-year-old Huck's vindictive math teacher wins the town poker tournament and takes the winner's watch away from Huck's father while he is in a coma, Huck vows to get even with him no matter what it takes.

Dead man's hand

crime fiction at the poker table
2007

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