Ghost of Poker Games Past: A Poker Boy Story: Uncollected Anthology, #28

By Dean Wesley Smith

Poker Boy often finds himself in unusual situations. But time travel makes him uncomfortable. Really, really uncomfortable.

So, when Poker Boy finds himself in the middle of a poker game at the Golden Gate casino in 1950, he knows he needs help. And fast!

But help might take a while. Because the stakes for the future if Poker Boy doesn't do the job right just got raised higher than ever.

Part of Unexpected Histories, an Uncollected Anthology.

 "[The Poker Boy] series is unlike anything else out there. It's quirky and a lot of fun."

—Amazing Stories

• Language: English
• Publisher: WMG Publishing
• Release date: Aug 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201973414

Dean Wesley Smith

Considered one of the most prolific writers working in modern fiction, USA TODAY bestselling writer, Dean Wesley Smith published far over a hundred novels in forty years, and hundreds of short stories across many genres. He currently produces novels in four 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, and the superhero series staring Poker Boy. During his career he 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.

Book preview

Ghost of Poker Games Past

GHOST OF POKER GAMES PAST

A POKER BOY STORY

UNCOLLECTED ANTHOLOGY: UNEXPECTED HISTORIES

BOOK TWENTY-EIGHT

DEAN WESLEY SMITH

WMG Publishing

CONTENTS

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Uncollected Anthology, Issue 28: Unexpected Histories

Also by Dean Wesley Smith

About the Author

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CHAPTER 1

Someday I will learn that when I think I am having an uneventful night, it never turns out that way. Just flat never.

My night started at the Golden Nugget poker room in downtown Las Vegas. I hadn’t visited that room for maybe six months, but it was a good room and I sort of felt, as Poker Boy, a superhero of poker, I should visit all the poker rooms in Vegas at least a couple times a year. And all the ones in California, Oregon, and Nevada at least once a year. Some nights I jumped from two or three of the small rooms, spending an hour in each.

The Golden Nugget room held eighteen tables and three times a day had some sort of tournament going on three of those tables. It had a low ceiling, like most older hotel poker rooms, and was decorated in dark mahogany, with a dark carpet and lighter