A review by nerfherder86
All-in by Pete Hautman

3.0

17 year old Denn lives in Law Vegas as a professional poker player, although he's not doing so well at the moment. He's just lost all but his last hundred bucks in a game where the dealer, cute redhead Cattie, cheated the deal so that he lost. In flashbacks and alternating points of view, from Cattie and Denn and "Jimbo" another young poker player, we learn Denn's history: he won a restaurant in a poker game in his hometown, but sold it when it tanked due to his bad management, and moved out to Vegas--the story told in the first book, [book: No Limit]. Now he's trying to win big, but he's gotten distracted by the cute redhead, who earns tons of money but has no one to spend it on or any motivation to change her life of crooked deals. Denn thinks if he could just come up with the $10,000 he needs to enter the big million-dollar tournament, he'll be on easy street. Lots of poker excitement, poker slang terms (luckily there's a glossary coz beyond "full house" and "the river", I don't know much about poker) and a general overall sense of despair and hope. You can almost smell the cigars and see the dim casino lights as you read.