gambling

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.

Discusses the ever-increasing gambling phenomenon of sports betting and the issues involved with it, such as societal and individual risks and benefits.

In the three years since her father's death, Arizona eighteen-year-old Regina has loaned her mother thousands of dollars to cover her compulsive spending and gambling, and she copes with her own stress by overeating, but when her mother wins the lottery, Regina hopes their troubles are over.

Eighteen-year-old Barry competes in a non-sanctioned boxing match in hopes of helping his recently-widowed mother, unaware that his best friend and manager, Alby, has his own desperate need for a share of the purse that may put their friendship on the line.

Johnny Aysgarth is a handsome gambler who seems to live by borrowing money from friends. He meets shy Lina McLaidlaw on a train whilst trying to travel in a first class carriage with a third class ticket. He begins to court Lina and before long they are married. It is only after the honeymoon that she discovers his true character and she starts to become suspicious when Johnny's friend and business partner, Beaky is killed mysteriously.

An anthology providing opposing viewpoints as to whether gambling is ethical, if it benefits economies, if government should regulate Indian gambling, how it affects sports, and if compulsive gambling is a serious problem.

Monica is already nervous about riding in her first horse show, and when she finds out that Rory is betting on her performance it only increases the pressure she feels.

En route to join their mother in the desert, thirteen-year-old Jamie and her older brother pick up a hitchhiker with a bag of money and soon find themselves helping to place a $12,000 bet in Las Vegas.

Teenager Kip Breaker falls in love with a fascinating girl named Joey, but his happiness is shortlived after Joey's father introduces him to the world of high-stakes gambling.