POKER INFO - Rounders

Really good movie. If you have the DVD, after watching it a few times, just skip every scene with Gretchen Mol (Mike's GF). While hot, she sucks the life out of the movie. Skipping her scenes cuts the movie to about 40 minutes of the best poker scenes caught in cinema.

During a rainy day, I decided to pop in my video copy of Rounders, and let's just say that I loved the movie. The poker play is very realistic, the plot continues to thicken as the movie goes along, and most of all, Johnny Chan was in it! Johnny fuckin' Chan!

The Best Poker Movie Ever!

I'd like to give this movie 4 stars, but because there isn't another modern poker movie it gets a 1-star bonus. John Malkovich, Ed Norton, and Matt Damon kick ass in the best poker/gambling movie I've ever seen.

One of my fav movies till all these bandwagon poker people found out about poker because of the WPT....

I like this movie a lot. I love the one liners maybe would be the best if it weren't for Pulp Fiction. My favorite line isn't posted here if anyone remembers exactly let us know. But it goes a little something like this.--I bet your kicking yourself for not walking away when you had the chance--bad judgement--With "bad judgement" being my favorite. Oh ya I just remembered, "You must feel proud and good""Strong enough to beat the world" "Nobody can push you around"Also I must comment on Gills comment about bandwagon poker people. Hasn't poker always been insanely popular? I've been playing since I was 5, and most everybody at least knows how to play 5 card draw. What does everyone else think about this? Are more people playing now than before?

[Osceana]

This is a great review. I agree with pretty much everything said here. This movie cheers me up, and encourages me. I kind of like how this movie equates life to poker in an metaphorical way. I find myself referencing this movie a lot. My favorite scene/quote in the movie though is when he pulls Knish aside and tells him his story about beating Johnny Chan at the round of poker. I love it. Or, Martin Landau's line, "We can't run from who we are; our destiny chooses us...." What an awesome fucking movie. The only thing i didn't understand/like was the math of how he got back to 30,000. I can't remember how much he said he turned his money into, but it didn't add up to me, i remember. I'll have to check it out again. It's been a few months since i've seen it, but i've been feeling the urge. I've seen the movie hundreds of times. By the way, here's a link to a script of the movie: [url]http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/r/rounders-script-transcript-poker-damon.html[/url]

[HPG ADMIN]

yeah, the I'm not sure if the money does add up and there were numerous threads around the internet having people outline where the money went. I think it was implied there was a few miscellaneous thousand dollars that were spent or made here and there.

Another thing about the movie was that I was a little surprised they didn't re-release the movie around 2004 or so after moneymaker made poker popular. I think they could have clocked another $20 million or so at the box office without much marginal cost. There were many people, including me, who also never got to see it on the big screen.

[PokerDav]

Well here is how I look at it...
He ended with just over 60 (which if the math is going to work out, is probably close to 61)
-15 to KGB/Grammer
-6 to the chesterfield
-10 to the professor
=30

Now as for how he TURNED it into 60 (obviously doubling the 20 is only 40), when Mike steps back to the table after the famous "stick it in you" line, he says "reload at anytime". I've always presumed that KGB "reloaded" for another 20....

[DHG]

Seen at least a dozen times.