When Cass Parker, who is a big believer in fate, walks in on her best friend kissing Jesse, the guy that she likes, she decides to find new friends and join weekly poker night, but Jesse turns up for the final showdown.
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.
Unable to resist the lure of poker but reluctant to admit his addiction, sixteen-year-old Andrew, a talented player who relies on his mathematical skills to plan game strategy, risks friendship and his parents' trust as he begins to take money from his father's business to finance his secret gambling activities.
Having won thousands of dollars playing high-stakes poker in Las Vegas, seventeen-year-old Denn Doyle hits a losing streak after falling in love with a young casino card dealer named Cattie Hart.
When Shannon Card, a sixteen-year-old high school honors student, lies about her age to get a job at a Connecticut casino so she can earn money for her college tuition, she becomes involved in a secret poker society and falls deeper into a web of deceit.
how an amateur poker player turned $40 into $2.5 million at the World Series of Poker
Moneymaker, Chris
2005
Chronicles the story of Chris Moneymaker, a Tennessee accountant who enjoyed gambling, only playing the game since college, and describes how he won the 2003 World Series of Poker by turning forty dollars into 2.5 million.
Compulsive gambler David Caine uses his brilliant mathematical mind to outsmart the odds at Manhattan's underground poker clubs, but when he experiences a severe epileptic seizure at a key moment, he finds his life spinning out of control, and agrees to try an experimental treatment that soon causes more harm than good.
