No Limit by Pete Hautman is about a 15 year old teenager named
Dennis Doyle. He has his own lawn mowing business to make money for himself.
One day his weed whacker gets broken and he goes to the mall to buy a new one
with his friend Murky. After he buys it one of Murky’s friends invites them to
play poker over to his house to gamble. At first he is unsure but after a
couple rounds he starts to get good. He couldn't lose. After the poker game was
over Dennis realized that he can make money a lot quicker gambling then from
his lawn mowing business. He gives his lawn mowing business to Murky and
gambles for his money. After a couple days Dennis gets addicted to gambling and
can’t stop. Gambling went from a onetime thing to a hobby. It became an everyday
thing for him to gamble. He starts to go to a casino to gamble. Everything
seems to be going well but after Dennis becomes rich, he has no friends. He
later learns about to owner of the casino who won it from gambling from the old
owner. Later own the owner learns about Dennis and gambles with him. The owner
puts the casino on the line with $4,000 dollars. It turned out he was bluffing
and the 15 year old won the casino. In the end Dennis, the new owner of the
casino owns one of the biggest casinos in town with no friends and still
gambled daily.
I really enjoyed how you summarized the book, i think it sounds very interesting. I also enjoyed how you formatted it, so its shows how a small problem became into a bigger one. Good Job!!
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