Poker Boy Series

Superheroes in the gambling universe sometimes find themselves helping people who normally don’t need help. Poker Boy met Bob on Christmas Eve and proceeded to take his money at the table because Bob played horrid poker and did so while being a real jerk. But Bob needed that money for a very special and personal reason. A reason Poker Boy found worthwhile.

USA TODAY BESTSELLING WRITER Dean Wesley Smith returns to his most popular series that features the superhero Poker Boy and all his sidekicks. Poker Boy once again finds himself facing the task of saving someone. But this person seems to be a ghost. Can a simple poker player give a ghost a reason to live? If anyone can do it, Poker Boy can, all between hands of cards on a great Saturday night.

Poker Boy somehow finds himself facing an imitation of his girlfriend, Patty Ledgerwood. Within a fraction of a second he somehow saves himself and maybe the world from another war. Or maybe he helps set up a new war in the future. “[The Poker Boy] series is unlike anything else out there. It’s quirky and a lot of fun.”

Poker Boy saved the world a number of times, but never from an alien. With the help of his sidekick, Front Desk Girl and Laverne, Lady Luck herself, Poker Boy must do battle with an alien snake across the only battlefield Poker Boy knows: a poker table. The stakes are higher than in the original Garden of Eden. To make matters worse, Poker Boy hates snakes.

Missing! Laverne, Lady Luck herself. Poker Boy, Front Desk Girl, and Screamer chase after every lead, as well as every other Gambling God and hero in the gambling universe. The three of them get to the truth of what happened to Laverne. But saving the world from unraveling? Without luck, they may not have the time.

A beautiful woman sits down at a poker table and Poker Boy knows instantly everything feels wrong. She seems beautiful, but her appearance hides something far more sinister. Poker Boy, in a fair hand of cards, finds himself in a fight to save an entire table of innocent card players from ending up playing a very, very long and losing game in the poker room in hell. First published as “Poker Boy vs. A Denizen of Gambling Hell” in All Hell Breaking Loose, edited by Martin H. Greenberg from Daw Books.

Even superheroes can’t always save the girl. As one of the greatest superheroes in all of the Gambling Universe, Poker Boy does everything he can to help, but when the damsel in distress refuses to be rescued from her own deadly breasts, what’s a superhero to do? “The Old Girlfriend of Doom” was first published in the anthology Crime Spells in February 2009 from Daw Books, edited by Loren L. Coleman and Martin H. Greenberg.

Poker Boy, still a freshly minted superhero just learning the ropes at the time of this story, runs smack into the charms of someone who knows his secret name, knows who he is. And won’t let him use his superpowers. As a red-blooded young man with needs and hormones, Poker Boy must face those challenges in an epic battle of perfect skin, stunning looks, and a hormone-clouded mind.

Gambling universe superhero Poker Boy loves saving dogs, even though that’s not part of his duty in the gambling universe. He sometimes thinks he saves more dogs than he does people. Now he and his team must use every skill they have to save not just one dog, but all dogs from a force that can’t be stopped.

When you’re a superhero, you don’t often notice pink shoes. Poker Boy is usually far too busy saving the world from evil, saving dogs from sure death, or playing professional poker, his day job that pays the bills of being a superhero. But when Poker Boy sees the pink shoes at the entrance to the Silicon Suckers city, he knows Super Keno is in big trouble.

When the wife of one the guardians of humanity, herself one of the most powerful beings in the universe, comes looking for help, a superhero does what he can. Poker Boy and his sidekick (and girlfriend), Front Desk Girl, must help with no idea why.

In a casino in Oregon, Poker Boy beats a man fair-and-square at the poker table while a stranger watches, a stranger who knows too much about Poker Boy and his job. It turns out that much of Poker Boy’s future rested on that one hand of cards. A classic Poker Boy story with true heart.

What’s a girl to do when Daddy wants her dead? Mortuary Dan, otherwise known as Death himself, just happens to be her father. Poker Boy and his team must help the only daughter of Death understand that she might not really die as she turns twenty-one. Even though she will. Sort of....

The world is about to be destroyed. What can a poker player do? When a blue Searchlight appears and says the world hangs on the edge of destruction, even a great poker face feels hard to keep. Until Poker Boy discovers the blue guy doesn’t bluff. Can a simple superhero save the world? Sometimes playing poker might be the answer for just about everything.

Asked in the middle of the night to help the dangerous race called Silicon Suckers, Poker Boy faces a challenge like none other. He and Front Desk Girl risk their lives to help the alien-looking creatures, but then come face-to-face with what their bargain just might mean in the future.

Poker Boy and his team must stop a possible war between fairies and trolls. A war guaranteed to start at a poker table in the hidden Okey-Doke Casino. So everyone figured who would be better to stop it than Poker Boy. One problem: Poker Boy didn’t even know fairies and trolls existed.

As a superhero in the gambling universe, Poker Boy works directly for Stan, the God of Poker. Poker Boy’s job? To save those who need saving and take money at the poker tables from those who need it taken. But when Lady Luck herself comes calling and asks for a personal favor, Poker Boy and his team must travel far beyond the edges of Las Vegas to find the Queen of Hearts.

Poker Boy often solves problems and saves the world with his mutant talent of asking stupid questions. Sometimes really stupid questions. So when he asks the seemingly simple question over lunch one day about how the gods originated, he stirs up more than even Poker Boy bargains for. So how did the gods originate way back before Atlantis? Might be better to just not ask. Too late for Poker Boy. He asked.

An elderly woman makes couples disappear right off the Las Vegas Strip. Poker Boy and Patty must first stop her and then rescue the lost couples from some unknown place in time and space. A story of aging, of love, and sanity. And maybe just a little sex as well.

Poker Boy wants nothing more than to be left alone in a good game of poker. But a cherub circles overhead in the poker room wanting to talk. And Poker Boy knows this cherub and knows the little guy represents trouble. Even worse, the question the cherub asks Poker Boy could change a lot of futures. How really, really annoying.

For the second time in his life, Poker Boy finds himself trying to help a woman stalked by the alien-looking Silicon Suckers. He failed the first time and they killed an old girlfriend of his. This time the Silicon Suckers have killed three other women. Can he save the woman asking for help and more importantly help her save herself?

Lenny the Leprechaun’s wife went missing and now he wants Poker Boy to find her. Not known for finding people, Poker Boy only rescues people and dogs and the world in the process. Mrs. Lenny’s vanishing act seems to have no connection to Poker Boy. Until Poker Boy looks deeper. Then Poker Boy knows he might be able to save her, if she still lives. Which he doubts.

USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith brings back the Slots of Saturn in this short novel from the popular series featuring the superhero Poker Boy. Poker Boy and his team destroyed the Slots of Saturn. They know they did. At least, they think they did. But when people begin disappearing—again—poker boy must face what might just prove his greatest foe. Now, Poker Boy and his team must use their ten years of experience to find a way to conquer the evil ghost slots once and for all. And not lose themselves in the process. “[The Poker Boy] series is unlike anything else out there. It’s quirky and a lot of fun.” —Amazing Stories

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.

Poker Boy finds himself facing a possible future superhero in the world of poker. And Stan gave Poker Boy the task of telling the new kid what he would be. A tightrope of a story. How do you tell someone their life just changed? And everything you thought you knew about the world seemed now wrong? Carefully, Poker Boy figured. A fun new Poker Boy story showing a glimpse of how superheroes become superheroes.

Poker Boy sits peacefully in the MGM Grand, waiting for Patty, his girlfriend, to get off work. But the peace gets shattered when an older woman, skinny, not well-kept, and clearly starving walks in. Poker Boy decides he should help her. No way of knowing who the woman might be. A piece of the Poker Boy Universe history. And a feel-good story as well.

He calls himself The Presumptive. Poker Boy thinks that might be the most stupid nickname he ever heard at a poker table. So Poker Boy calls him Idiot Boy (but not to his face) because of the name and the guy’s bad play. But in Poker Boy’s world, nothing ever turns out the way they look. Even for Idiot Boy.

Poker Boy works as a superhero in the gambling side of the world. And he reports to Stan, the God of Poker. Very bothered, Stan comes to Poker Boy with a problem. Very personal and unusual. Another superhero working for Stan faces monster problems, and not the kind of problems that come from rescuing others. This other superhero needs to be rescued from himself. Sadly, we often all face our worst enemy every morning in the mirror, an enemy sometimes impossible to beat, even for a superhero.

Poker Boy, for years and years, wondered how old his girlfriend and love of his life, Patty, could be. She never denied being older. Just never told him how much. Until the Goddess of Weather, Isis, turned out to be one of Patty's closest friends. Then all bets were off.

Stan, the God of Poker sends Poker Boy on a wild goose chase, to find a casino in Northern Nevada. Surprise, Poker Boy finds it. And from that, the entire team gets to experience a fun holiday, just perfect for the season.