Full House: 10 Stories About Poker (review)

With Hautman running the game and ten YA-lit contributors seated at the table, readers will justifiably expect a standard of sophistication and edginess to match Hautman's gripping Denn Doyle poker saga (All-In, BCCB 9/07, etc.). What they get are ten entertaining but relatively mild tales that approach the game from a variety of angles. Plots range from Adam Stemple's insufficiently scary yarn about a player who breaks up a cursed game in a haunted castle and ends up with the devil on his tail, to Bill Fitzhugh's study in revenge against a player who had date-raped a friend of his opponents, to Will Weaver's story of an online poker scammer who cheats his own grandmother to stay in the game. Several stories feature female protagonists, but, disappointingly, none play for the pure pleasure or thrill of it; Mary Logue's heroine in particular seems oddly out of place in this collection when her crisis is simply deciding whether to play a royal flush against a boy she likes. Still, the theme should be a draw in itself, and the short-story format will have considerable appeal for time-strapped teens. A glossary of terms. Ranking of poker hands are included.

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