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A beautiful woman sits down at a poker table and Poker Boy knows instantly everything feels wrong.
She seems beautiful, but her appearance hides something far more sinister.
Poker Boy, in a fair hand of cards, finds himself in a fight to save an entire table of innocent card players from ending up playing a very, very long and losing game in the poker room in hell.
First published as “Poker Boy vs. A Denizen of Gambling Hell” in All Hell Breaking Loose, edited by Martin H. Greenberg from Daw Books.
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Dean Wesley Smith
Considered one of the most prolific writers working in modern fiction, USA TODAY bestselling writer, Dean Wesley Smith published far over a hundred novels in forty years, and hundreds of short stories across many genres. He currently produces novels in four major series, including the time travel Thunder Mountain novels set in the old west, the galaxy-spanning Seeders Universe series, the urban fantasy Ghost of a Chance series, and the superhero series staring Poker Boy. During his career he also wrote a couple dozen Star Trek novels, the only two original Men in Black novels, Spider-Man and X-Men novels, plus novels set in gaming and television worlds.
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Gambling Hell - Dean Wesley Smith
A beautiful woman sits down at a poker table and Poker Boy knows instantly everything feels wrong.
She seems beautiful, but her appearance hides something far more sinister.
Poker Boy, in a fair hand of cards, finds himself in a fight to save an entire table of innocent card players from ending up playing a very, very long and losing game in the poker room in hell.
First published as Poker Boy vs. A Denizen of Gambling Hell
in All Hell Breaking Loose, edited by Martin H. Greenberg from Daw Books.
CHAPTER ONE
THE TEN-TWENTY hold’em game at the Mirage was going just fine until Heidi sat down in the empty seat.
I was up about three hundred and enjoying the game, staying out of the way of another pro at the other end of the table. We were basically taking turns slowly relieving the tourists of their money, while making sure they had a good time giving it to us.
Heidi, with her long blonde hair, plunging V-neck sweater, and front-loaded
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