专题简介
Mike Riley's untouchable—he's the high school quarterback, he's dating the hottest girl in the school, and he can't seem to lose at cards. But then his luck turns, and one bad night of Texas Hold 'Em threatens to shatter his perfect life. To get back on top, Mike stakes everything on a brazen scheme to beat a group of ruthless card sharks at their own game.
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attribute · characteristic corpulent · fat demise · death generalize · make assumptions imminent · nearly at hand latent · dormant legion · multitude liberated · freed lull · slow period mechanism · machinery miffed · annoyed mirage · illusion 【详细】
The following night I was behind the counter at the Hillside Burger King during an extreme lull, staring at the purple Formica wall across from me. Okay, so my life of success and prosperity was going to have to wait a little while. Right now I still had 【详细】
“An A, baby! Did I mention that I got an A?!” I cried, pulling my history paper out of my bag and holding it up. Ian glanced at me from behind the wheel of his car and rolled his eyes. “Oh . . . and what’s this?” I said, yanking out my English m 【详细】
I sat in the basement of our local VFW hall, looking around at the legion of gambling addicts who had gathered for that evening’s Gamblers Anonymous meeting. I had finally, finally, liberated myself by confessing everything to my parents, and they had b 【详细】
abducted · kidnapped adamant · forceful adverse · unfavorable advocate · supporter affinity · preference affluent · wealthy aggregated · collected aloof · standoffish animated · overly lively apprehend · perceive artifacts · relics artisan · c 【详细】
After four hands of play, we aggregated our chips and compared the totals with Gray so we would all know where we stood for the fifth and final hand. Winter, Ian, and I were down. Not by much, but we were down. One of us had to win the fifth hand, or my l 【详细】
On the fourth hand, Winter folded quickly. She seemed to have an affinity for holding on to her chips, which I was grateful for. Her winnings and holdings were going to make up a big chunk of our final pot. I, however, decided to stay in on this one. Afte 【详细】
After two hands of play, our teams seemed to be fairly even. Gray had won the first pot, which was thankfully not that big. All of us had constrained our betting while we sized one another up. On the second hand, all my questions about Winter’s poker ab 【详细】
The big poker game was being held at Rick’s family’s ostentatious mansion on the outskirts of town. Gray was adamant from the beginning that he would be the one to pick the location. He didn’t trust me as far as he could throw me, basically, so he d 【详细】
congenially · pleasantly consummate · complete contagious · spreading content · happy conviction · confidence cordially · agreeably counteract · go against crafty · sly cue · signal debunk · disprove deliberation · thought demean · degrade dem 【详细】
By the time I was done meeting and greeting all the scouts, I was feeling quite content with myself. It seemed as if every last one of them was determined to talk me into coming to their school. Suddenly, my options were endless, and I couldn’t wait to 【详细】
After the game, which had turned into a total rout in the second half, I sat in Coach Rinaldi’s office, listening to the distant celebrations of the Hillside fans. I was all showered and clean, dressed in my street clothes, and the band was still out th 【详细】
As I approached the first huddle at the onset of the second half, some heckler from the Dorchester stands shouted out a fairly lewd comment about my “mama,” and hundreds of people laughed. I clenched my jaw and my hands curled into fists. Little did t 【详细】
abide · tolerate adroit · skilled ameliorate · improve anathema · pariah anomaly · irregularity appease · please ascribe · attribute aspiring · driven atone · make up for avidly · enthusiastically battery · abuse bellicose · combative benefice 【详细】
As I trudged back toward the field with the rest of the team, the marching band was out there doing its thing, playing the school’s classic fight song. They may as well have been playing a funeral dirge as far as I was concerned. All around me the guys 【详细】
Halftime offered no respite. The negativity in the locker room was pervasive, and Coach went off on us in his best imitation of a sports movie coach—so over the top it could almost be considered a parody if he wasn’t so legitimately upset. His face wa 【详细】
“Come on, Riley! You’re killing me!” Coach shouted from the sidelines. “Watch the damn blitz!” Joe Trung, Dorchester’s lead linebacker, shoved me a little farther into the ground as he pushed himself up. This guy, who would have been totally n 【详细】
abruptly · suddenly accusatory · blaming affectation · pose allegation · accusation ambiguous · vague ambivalent · undecided, conflicted amicable · friendly assiduousness · diligence assurances · promises asylum · mental institution attaining · 【详细】
It wasn’t until the day of the rivalry game that I understood with complete clarity the depth of the crime I was about to commit. As my friends and teammates readied for the game around me, all I could think about was how I was about to betray them. I l 【详细】
“I don’t believe this. Tell me you’re kidding. Please just tell me you’re messing with me.” I sat there on the end of my bed and watched as Winter stood up and started to pace. After much circumlocution, I had finally managed to tell her what I 【详细】
As I walked home after football practice later that week, I was feeling better than I had in a long time. I had deposited some money back into my savings account, and my parents had yet to notice the late statement, so I still had time to rebuild my balan 【详细】
abetting · encouraging abridged · shortened accessible · within reach accommodating · considerate adhere · stick adorned · decorated affable · gracious aggrieved · wronged agnostic · unsure of the existence of God alias · fake name allocated · 【详细】
I gotta say, winning is my personal panacea. As I approached Ian’s behemoth of a house later that night, I had gone through an extreme metamorphosis. I no longer felt like a pariah. I no longer felt like some loser with no control and no skills. I was b 【详细】
An hour later we had played three hands, and almost all the money Winter had lent me was gone. I would love to say that, once again, the cards were not in my favor, but this time I had to take some of the blame. I had underestimated my opponents. Winter 【详细】
“Hey! Look who it is! The man of the hour!” Gray stood up from the couch where he and his friends were playing on his Xbox 360. Unlike the day before, the basement was noisome and thick with cigar smoke. I tried not to cough as Gray stuffed his cigar 【详细】
“So, this is me,” Winter said as I pulled my used car into her driveway on Saturday afternoon. “ Quaint, isn’t it?” “It looks entirely different than the last time I was here,” I said. “I know. My mom completely renovated it,” Winter rep 【详细】
accelerating · speeding up accentuated · accented according · giving adulation · praise advantageous · favorable adversity · hardship agile · nimble amplified · boosted antagonist · enemy antidote · cure antipathy · dislike appraise · judge ar 【详细】
I was still wet from the shower when Winter showed up. “Hey,” she said cautiously. “Are you all right?” “Not really,” I replied. “I need to talk to you. Thanks for coming.” “No problem,” she said, my comments clearly augmenting her con 【详细】
I arrived at my dark, empty house, still clad in my grass- and dirt-stained uniform. My parents were out with friends for the evening, which was good because I didn’t feel like relating all the triumphs of the game to them just now. I walked into the ki 【详细】
“And that’s the end of the game! The Hillside Cardinals beat the Westmont Bears, forty-two to seven!” the announcer cried. “Let’s hear it for Mike Riley and the entire Cardinals team!” The crowd went crazy, exalting us with cheers and rushing 【详细】
That Friday night we had a game under the lights on our home field, an occasion everyone at school salivated for. There was nothing like the atmosphere at a night game. The stands were packed with revelers, bundled up against the cold, bedecked in our sch 【详细】
amenable · agreeable check · restraint condescend · talk down conspicuously · distinctly derivative · copied desiccated · dried up deviant · twisted dissipated · scattered emote · express emotion enthralled · captivated evanescent · fleeting ex 【详细】
I moved over to the couch as Ian saw the guys out. Sometimes, when he thinks we’re going to be too rowdy or strident, he walks us to our cars to make sure we keep it down. I had a feeling that tonight it was less about keeping the game a secret from his 【详细】
I didn’t win. Dominic and his friends came to play and I must have been distracted by my desperation, because they razed me. I didn’t pick up on any of their semaphores, and, in fact, I misread quite a few. The more money I lost, the more hampered my 【详细】
The night of the high-stakes game, I was feeling a bit timorous as I approached the basement door to Ian’s house. What I was about to do was not going to be easy, but I couldn’t see any other way out. I just hoped that Ian would be amenable to my plan 【详细】
Okay. So I had blown Winter off at first, which was not cool. After all, with all the insanity in my life right then, she was the best thing I had going for me. It was total serendipity that someone so cool and funny and vivacious had come into my life ri 【详细】
abdicating · giving up abnegation · giving up abort · end abruptly abstruse · difficult abysmal · absolutely wretched accede · give consent acclaim · applause accolades · positive acknowledgments accosted · attacked acute · sharp admonished · s 【详细】
The second the bell rang, I was out the door. I had spent Mr. Weeks’s entire lecture concocting a plan, and now that I had one, I wanted to execute it as quickly as possible. It was time to take corrective action. It was time to put the old Mike Riley b 【详细】
But the old Mike Riley was officially gone. As I walked into school I was reminded that even my peers were aware that I had changed. The halls before first period were desolate, lifeless. People shot me pitying looks or just avoided my gaze altogether. Mo 【详细】
A cacophony out on the street jolted me awake, and as I lifted my head, an acute pain shot right through my skull. Sunlight accosted my eyes, and as I tried to blink them free of tears, I looked around in confusion. What day was it? Where was I? Was it mo 【详细】
Saturday morning was our away game against Washington High. I was so exhausted as I boarded the bus with my teammates, I contemplated abdicating my quarterback position to the backup, Charlie Warner. He would clearly do a much better job than I would. I 【详细】
abject · spiritless abscond · leave secretly absolution · forgiveness abstain · not partake alluded · hinted avarice · greed aversion · dislike balked · stopped short belligerent · hostile benefactor · supporter bequeathed · endowed bereft · d 【详细】
I left after that last game and went home in an abject condition. I couldn’t believe I had lost even more money. The situation was officially exigent. Unless some magnanimous benefactor suddenly swooped in from on high with a huge check or some unknown 【详细】
That Friday night I sat at my regular poker game with my friends, my leg bouncing up and down under the table as I waited for Brad to make his bet. The table was silent, and tension gripped the room. Both my fault. I had been caustic and impatient ever si 【详细】
By the time lunch rolled around, I was a wreck. All I could think about all morning was my bank account, the balance that used to be there, and the balance that was there now. What my parents would do once the situation had been elucidated. That was the w 【详细】
As I walked into school on Thursday morning, I was barely cognizant. I hadn’t slept at all, and even though my heart was pounding as if I’d just run ten miles, my brain was all fuzzy and exhausted. I felt like I had sucked down ten cups of super-caffe 【详细】
crescendo · climax deadpanned · said matter-of-factly dearth · shortage deceive · mislead decibel · loudness demolish · destroy digression · deviation disclose · reveal discrepancy · disagreement disheartened · discouraged dissuade · advise aga 【详细】
I sat outside on the front steps of my house for a long time, feeling morose and dejected, wondering what the hell I was going to do next. It was a cool October evening, and a tranquil breeze rustled the leaves in the trees on our front lawn. I took a dee 【详细】
Big mistake. Huge, awful, horrible, horrifying mistake. An hour later my winning streak had stagnated. Not just stagnated, but reversed itself. My pile of chips had been all but effaced. I was losing. Big time. On every hand. The cards were not there. And 【详细】
I’m not usually inclined to underestimate my opponents, but an hour later, if anyone had asked me, I would have said with absolute certainty that the guys I was playing were not only sophomoric, but hapless. And that would have been kind. Not only did t 【详细】
“Hey, man. So glad you guys invited me to this thing,” Topher Ross said, dipping a tortilla chip into a vat of melted cheese. He flipped his long blond hair over his shoulder. “There’s never anything to do around this stupid town.” Topher had ju 【详细】
abrasive · irritating accomplice · assistant (esp. in wrongdoing) acquired · taken acrimony · hatred adept · skillful adversary · enemy agitated · nervous alacrity · smoothness alleviated · eased atypical · unusual auspicious · prosperous banis 【详细】
Thanks for staying and helping me clean up,” Ian said as I stacked the chips into their box. “Are you kidding? I’m totally indebted to you, man,” I said. Ian laughed as he swept the coffee table by the couches free of Dorito crumbs. “Why? It’s 【详细】
An hour later, I had rendered Dominic Thomas completely impotent, and damn, was it fun. I can’t place all the credit on my poker talent, though. The kid was so totally inept he made me and everyone else at the table look like the most adept players in t 【详细】
When I arrived at Ian’s house for our regular Friday night game, there was an extra poker table set up in the basement, all glossy and new. The regular guys were there, but a couple of kids from the junior class were milling around as well, eating chips 【详细】
“Oh, wow. I had no idea she would be there. Did you, Mike? Did you know she was going to be there?” Winter asked me in the darkened movie theater, at the top of her voice. “I mean, this movie is so unconventional! It is so unlike every other romanti 【详细】
abase · undermine abate · stop abhor · hate accentuating · accenting acerbically · bitterly acquiesced · gave in acumen · intelligence adjacent · nearby adroit · skilled allay · ease anguish · pain antiquated · old apparently · seemingly bera 【详细】
On Sunday morning it took a lot of effort for me to pull myself out of bed, but I couldn’t spend the entire day ruminating about Marcy and her wanton ways. I had a history paper due that week, and I had been remiss lately, procrastinating on the researc 【详细】
That evening I sat alone in my living room in front of the Yankees pre-game show, wallowing in self-pity. I was so angry that I had actually considered going out and scouring the town for a party and some random girl to hook up with, but I had never been 【详细】
“What the hell is this?” I blurted. Marcy and Dominic jumped apart. Her face was flushed but went white the moment she saw me. Dominic, however, had to hide his puerile smirk by turning away for a moment. Of all the people in all the world she could h 【详细】
aberration · atypical event antithesis · opposite apathetic · spiritless appallingly · shockingly archetypal · perfect example ardor · zeal assess · evaluate audacious · bold begrudge · disapprove biased · prejudiced boisterously · rowdy bombas 【详细】
I was lighter than air when I came out of the locker room after the game. My wet hair was slicked back from my head, and I wore a clean Hillside Cardinals T-shirt. Everyone was cheering and talking boisterously, making plans to hit the diner and hang, hol 【详细】
“Third and twenty? What the hell, you guys?” I seethed in the huddle, hoping my teammates would pick up on my ardor and use it. We were on the Wildcats’ forty-five, when two minutes ago we had been on their twenty-five. One minute we were driving do 【详细】
“They think they’re coming into our house and taking us down?!” Curtis Springer shouted, pacing up and down the locker room in his shoulder pads and football pants. “Naw, man! No way do they come in to our house and take us down. You feel me?!” 【详细】
“I’ll tell you what your problem is, Mike. You suck at bluffing,” Tyler Brooks said, tossing a couple more chips into the pot in the center of the table. “You just don’t have a mendacious nature. And that is why . . . I am going . . . to kick . 【详细】
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