Playing Scared: Poker Boy

By Dean Wesley Smith

Poker Boy hates playing with someone using scared money. When a player sits down at a table with money he or she must not lose, bad decisions tend to follow.

When a guy sits down at a table with Poker Boy radiating fear and desperation, Poker Boy decides he must help. And he recruits Marble Grant and her partner Sims to help as well.

A great Poker Boy poker story.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WMG Publishing
• Release date: Oct 7, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201850746

Dean Wesley Smith

Considered one of the most prolific writers working in modern fiction, USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith published far more than a hundred novels in forty years, and hundreds of short stories across many genres. At the moment he produces novels in several 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, a superhero series starring Poker Boy, and a mystery series featuring the retired detectives of the Cold Poker Gang. His monthly magazine, Smith’s Monthly, which consists of only his own fiction, premiered in October 2013 and offers readers more than 70,000 words per issue, including a new and original novel every month. During his career, Dean 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. Writing with his wife Kristine Kathryn Rusch under the name Kathryn Wesley, he wrote the novel for the NBC miniseries The Tenth Kingdom and other books for Hallmark Hall of Fame movies. He wrote novels under dozens of pen names in the worlds of comic books and movies, including novelizations of almost a dozen films, from The Final Fantasy to Steel to Rundown. Dean also worked as a fiction editor off and on, starting at Pulphouse Publishing, then at VB Tech Journal, then Pocket Books, and now at WMG Publishing, where he and Kristine Kathryn Rusch serve as series editors for the acclaimed Fiction River anthology series. For more information about Dean’s books and ongoing projects, please visit his website at www.deanwesleysmith.com and sign up for his newsletter.

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Playing Scared

Playing Scared

A Poker Boy Short Story

Dean Wesley Smith

WMG Publishing, Inc.

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1

I flat hated it when someone played with scared money.

Scared money is when a player can’t afford to be betting what he has in front of him, but for some reason he or she feels they need to play.

You tended to see scared money players at times in Las Vegas. I hated it every time I did.

I was in what had been a really nice, easy-going five-ten no limit game in the poker room at the MGM Grand. I liked the room with the brown cloth and leather furnishings, the excess of plants, and high ceilings. The casino was just far enough away to keep the sound down