Full House: 10 Stories About Poker

by Pete Hautman, Gary Phillips, K.L. Going

Is there any greater thrill than staring down your opponent across the poker table, waiting for the card that will make or break your hand? Acclaimed YA novelist Pete Hautman would know—he’s been a poker fanatic for thirty years. And with poker now an international TV phenomenon, the time seems right for an anthology about this most exciting game.

From a contest that pits a hapless teen against his girlfriend’s redneck family, to a midnight game with the Devil, to an Internet poker scheme gone horribly wrong, the stories here brilliantly reveal how poker can both irrevocably affect and eerily imitate teenage life.

Genres: Fiction, Young Adult, Short Stories

192 pages, Hardcover

First published September 20, 2007

About the author

Peter Murray Hautman is an American author best known for his novels for young adults. One of them, Godless, won the 2004 National Book Award for Young People's Literature. The National Book Foundation summary is, "A teenage boy decides to invent a new religion with a new god."

Reviews

[Missmath144 · Rating 3 out of 5]

Short stories for teens -- some very good (Hautman's "The Scholarship Game"), some okay, and some not very good. I'm not very good at visualizing a poker hand just from reading the names of the cards; it would have helped if I could have done that better.

[Kelly · Rating 4 out of 5]

short stories