Ergebnis für "poker" in Literatur & Belletristik

When financial prodigy Tyler Rush stumbles upon a clandestine poker game where the world's elite manipulate global events, he's drawn into a treacherous world he never knew existed. Watching him closely is CEO Mike Hayward, a man hungry for global dominance, who sees Tyler as a pawn in his ruthless plan to unlock the Einstein Code-an AI algorithm that promises to reshape the future of intelligence and power.

In Preeti Shenoy’s exciting new short story, a young girl, fresh off a break-up, repeatedly finds playing cards turning up on her path. At first she is dismissive, but they keep reappearing. Do the cards mean something? What are they trying to tell her? Will she find new love?

Every girl dreams of meeting her celebrity crush. Unfortunately, my dreams weren't coming true. I was on national television, standing in front of my celebrity nemesis, and ten hours earlier, I had his tongue down my throat.

I have loved researching the U.S. Old West to create this story. It covers horses, cattle drives, horseshoes and even poker games. The main character is Lonnie, a young boy with no apparent roots, who lands in trouble right away.

Mat Harlow had his life figured out. He married his college sweetheart, and his residency at the hospital was showing a promising career ahead. Then, at the hands of a reckless driver, all of it changed. A traumatic brain injury derails his life, and Mat finds himself dumped by his wife, out of a job, and rejected by his family. Wyatt Adley has dealt with his fair share of disaster when it comes to marriage. When his husband is involved in a scandal with a student, Wyatt spends all of his energy to clear his name, then quickly escapes Canada for the US.

In the highly anticipated second episode of the Poker Gods series, the hero, Henrico “Harry” Di Maggio finds himself deep in the 2033 World Series of Poker Main Event, but this isn’t just a battle for a championship bracelet—it’s a fight for the soul of the game itself. At the felt sits the villain, Chernobog—a ruthless crime syndicate commander turned into a feared poker sensation is the chip leader who isn’t just playing to win.

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Wealthy and privileged, Allison has lived a comfortable and boring life. But it's a life full of secrets, too. When she finally admits that she's ready to walk on the wild side, she makes her confession to the one person who has the experience to make all of her fantasies a reality. As handsome and roguish Todd challenges Allison to a less-than-innocent game of poker, she recklessly bets it all - herself included - and gives Todd everything he needs to relieve her of her "good girl" guilt.

The World Series of Poker Main Event—a battleground where legends are made, fortunes are won, and careers are shattered. But this year, something is different. Something is wrong. A mysterious villain has stormed the tournament, his dominance is borderline supernatural.

Killer Cards, nombre con el que bautiza la prensa a quien va dejando a su paso cadáveres de personalidades de la sociedad con un as de la baraja de póker en la ropa, tiene un plan trazado con meticulosidad para alcanzar su objetivo y burlar a los investigadores. El caso se convertirá en un fenómeno mediático que mantendrá en vilo a todos los televidentes del país hasta que los agentes atrapen al culpable. Sin embargo, Killer Cards «guarda un as en la manga». ¿Conseguirán atrapar a Killer Cards antes de que complete su póker de asesinatos?

"Questions are posed," writes Norman Mailer, "in the hope they will open into richer insights, which in turn will bring forth sharper questions." In this series of conversations, John Buffalo Mailer, 27, poses a series of questions to his father, challenging the reflections and insights of the man who has dominated and defined much of American letters for the past sixty years.

It’s Labor Day weekend, 1935, and the Darling Dahlias—the garden club in little Darling, Alabama—are trying to keep their cool at the end of a sizzling summer. This isn’t easy, though, since there’s a firebug on the loose in Darling. He—or she!—strikes without apparent rhyme or reason, and things have gotten to the point where nobody feels safe. What’s more, a dangerous hurricane is poised to hurl itself in Darling’s direction, while a hurricane of a different sort is making a whirlwind campaign stop: the much-loved-much-hated senator from Louisiana, Huey P. Long.

Killer Cards, nombre con el que bautiza la prensa a quien va dejando a su paso cadáveres de personalidades de la sociedad con un as de la baraja de póker en la ropa, tiene un plan trazado con meticulosidad para alcanzar su objetivo y burlar a los investigadores. El caso se convertirá en un fenómeno mediático que mantendrá en vilo a todos los televidentes del país hasta que los agentes atrapen al culpable. Sin embargo, Killer Cards «guarda un as en la manga». ¿Conseguirán atrapar a Killer Cards antes de que complete su póker de asesinatos?

Jerry Nadler is a Jewish kid growing up in northern New Jersey. Surrounded by Italian mobsters and illegal poker rooms, he idolizes the best player in town: his father. But after making some bad life choices, Jerry begins to follow in his dad’s footsteps - no thanks to his friend and onetime childhood tormentor, Tony.

Five septuagenarian men have been playing in a weekly poker game for over 30 years. In an attempt to learn more about one another, they decide to go to a mountain cabin for a weekend retreat. There, they discover that each of them has a secret that, when shared, changes their relationship and their lives.

Dela Alvaro is a disabled veteran who grew up on the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation. When an IED in Iraq ended her military career, she came home to reassess her life and landed a job in security at the Indian run casino on the reservation. Not even a year into being the assistant to the head of security, Dela is promoted on a trial basis. When one of the casino employees is found stabbed and stuffed in a laundry chute, she knows she can kiss head of security goodbye if she doesn’t find the killer before the media gets hold of the story.

On the last day of December 1921, three enigmatic men - Cairo Martyr, a blue-eyed African who controls the Middle East's supply of aphrodisiac mummy dust; O'Sullivan Beare, a former Irish patriot and gunrunner who has made a fortune selling spurious, phallic-shaped Christian artifacts; and Mark Szondi, a dedicated Zionist who wagers only fried fish futures - sit down to a fateful game of poker in the back room of a Jerusalem antiquities shop owned by a 3000-year-old knight errant.

Aces and eights, a dead man's hand. Life and death dealt over a shuffle of a deck. Stakes from dollar bills to souls tossed into the center of the table. And sitting around, waiting for the turn of a card, to raise, check, bet, or fold, are rogues, scoundrels, dames, and sharps. Every single one betting their last breath on the hand they hold.

Conrad Browning had money, a manservant and a mission: to find his missing children and meet them for the first time. He's come as far as Denver, dodged a bullet from a beautiful assassin, and landed in a big buy-in poker tournament against a ruthless heavy-betting cattle baron with a plan of his own - to take this city slicker into the wilderness, and hunt him like an animal. But Rance McKinney doesn't know who he is facing. The son of legendary gunman Frank Morgan, Conrad goes by the moniker of the Loner.

From the author of the acclaimed The World Wasn’t Ready for You comes a thrilling first novel, set in a near future where artificial intelligence runs the world, involving a young medical student who must unravel family secrets to uncover the truth of his father’s mysterious death. In a time...