Yet it failed to satisfy me, as an avid poker player who has played well over 10,000 games (mostly online btw), I just didn't believe much of this movie, I didn't really care to like the characters all that much, the story was cheap and uninteresting, I mean how many movies are about debts and people getting beat up? probably 50%.
I would have enjoyed this so much more if it wasn't about debts, just a straight up poker movie, no mobs and death threats, because that shouldn't be how poker is represented, sure it's like that some places, but not everywhere. Here we see poker as gambling, but what it is, is it's a game of skill, and of luck, if you put two and two together, you will win high, lose low. But you will lose, yet you will win.
This film lacked so much, it could really have been something, but the story failed to intrigue, it failed to teach the audience about the characters, all we saw was some ordinary people, I mean I could walk down the street and do that everyday for free.
I was about 10 minutes left of the film and I looked at the time and thought "hell this movie is supposed to finish soon, I thought so much more was going to happen" and it didn't, it was overall, an OK film, nothing I would ever watch again, but if you're a novice at poker, I suggest you watch it, as it has some pretty onto it key-points every poker player should learn.
I would have enjoyed this so much more if it wasn't about debts, just a straight up poker movie, no mobs and death threats, because that shouldn't be how poker is represented, sure it's like that some places, but not everywhere. Here we see poker as gambling, but what it is, is it's a game of skill, and of luck, if you put two and two together, you will win high, lose low. But you will lose, yet you will win.
This film lacked so much, it could really have been something, but the story failed to intrigue, it failed to teach the audience about the characters, all we saw was some ordinary people, I mean I could walk down the street and do that everyday for free.
I was about 10 minutes left of the film and I looked at the time and thought "hell this movie is supposed to finish soon, I thought so much more was going to happen" and it didn't, it was overall, an OK film, nothing I would ever watch again, but if you're a novice at poker, I suggest you watch it, as it has some pretty onto it key-points every poker player should learn.