Poker movies are bad…as a rule…Rounders has the classic quote…
[Narrating first lines]
Mike McDermott: Listen, here’s the thing. If you can’t spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you ARE the sucker.
Rounders is considered the best movie, Steve McQueen in The Cincinnati Kid captured my imagination, A Big Hand for a Little Lady with Joanna Woodward and Henry Fonda and Casino Royal show how badly the game is represented on screen
Below is Doug Polk analysis of a key poker hand in Rounders with Matt Damon, where Teddy KGB’s play is somewhat questionable on the river…perhaps one day I’ll write a screenplay that will take the number one spot on IMDB…