Rounders (1998)

John Malkovich: Teddy KGB

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• Teddy KGB : [Referring to Mike after their final game]  He beat me... Straight up... Pay him... Pay that man his money.

• Teddy KGB : [to Mike]  In my club, I will splash the pot whenever the fuck I please.

• Mike McDermott : [before their final game, putting his chips in a poker tray]  Uh, you know what? I got my five grand here. That's just fine by me. I'm going home.

  Teddy KGB : Fine. It's a fucking joke anyway. After all, I am paying you with your money.

  Mike McDermott : [turns around]  What did you say?

  Teddy KGB : Your money... I am still up 20 grand... from this last time I stick it in you.

  Mike McDermott : [Narrating]  They're trying to goad me, trying to own me. But this isn't a gunfight. It's not about pride or ego. It's only about money. I can leave now, even with Grama and KGB... and halfway to paying Petrovsky back. That's the safe play. I told Worm you can't lose what you don't put in the middle. But you can't win much either.

• Grama : [referring to Mike, growing impatient by waiting for Teddy to win all of Mike's money]  Enough is enough, Teddy. Finish the fucking kid off.

  Teddy KGB : [referring to Mike]  Hanging around, hanging around. Kid's got alligator blood. Can't get rid of him.

• Teddy KGB : [referring to Mike wining every hand by slow rolling him]  No More! No! Not tonight! This son of bitch, all night he, "Check. Check. Check." He trap me!

• Teddy KGB : That ace could not have helped you.

  [drops all of his chips onto the table] 

  Teddy KGB : I bet it all.

  Mike McDermott : [laughs]  You're right Teddy, the ace didn't help.

  [pushes chips towards the center and flops down his cards] 

  Mike McDermott : I flopped the nut straight.

• Teddy KGB : [to Mike, after Mike slow rolled him during their final game]  Lays down a monster. The fuck did you lay that down?

• Mike McDermott : [during their final game]  That's 4,400. I'm gonna call you. Or else, I won't respect myself tomorrow morning.

  Teddy KGB : Respect is all you have left in the morning!

• Teddy KGB : [showing Mike he won the hand with a higher full house]  Aces full, Mike.

• Teddy KGB : [after Mike raises in the very first game against Teddy]  That's a position raise, I call.

• Mike McDermott : [narrating while playing against teddy KGB]  Here's the beauty of this game: I just got top two pair on the flop and I want to keep him in the hand. Against your average guy, I'd set a "bear trap", hardly bet at all, let him walk into it. But KGB's too smart for that. So, what I've got to do is over bet the pot,make it look like I'm trying to buy it.

  Mike McDermott : I bet two thousand

  Mike McDermott : [narrating]  Then he plays back at me, and I get paid off.

  Teddy KGB : [after reaching an Oreo cookie, splitting in two halves and putting the right half in his mouth]  call

  Mike McDermott : [Narrating]  My guess is Teddy's on a flush draw.

  Teddy KGB : [checking his turn]  Burn and turn.

  Mike McDermott : [Narrating, while the turn card is dealt]  There's my money card, nine of hearts. I got a full house.

  Teddy KGB : [checking his turn, slow playing his hand]  To the bettor.

  Mike McDermott : Check's good.

  Mike McDermott : [Narrating]  Now I hope a spade falls and Teddy makes his flush. That way he'll bet strong, and I'll beat him with my nines full over aces.

  Teddy KGB : I'm going to bet fifteen thousand

  Mike McDermott : [requesting a time out to think]  time

  Mike McDermott : All right, I call your fifteen plus I have another thirty three to raise you. Yeah, I'm gonna go all in, 'cause I don't think you got the spades

  Teddy KGB : You are right. I don't have spades.

  Mike McDermott : [Narrating]  I know before the cards are even turned over.

• Teddy KGB : [to Mike, referring to Grama watching them play nearby]  It hurts doesn't it? Your hopes dashed, your dreams down the toilet. And your fate is sitting right besides you.

• Teddy KGB : [after losing almost every hand because he underestimated Mike's poker abilities]  Mr. Son of a bitch, let's play some cards!

• Teddy KGB : [to Mike, before their final game]  If you don't have my money then you are mine.

• Teddy KGB : [Offering Mike an Oreo cookie after he exchanges his cash for poker chips at his underground gambling parlor]  Want a cookie?

• Teddy KGB : [after Mike knocks on the counter, referring to the debt Mike owes him]  so, you have my money?

  Mike McDermott : I owe you that money tomorrow, right?

  Teddy KGB : [in Russian]  yes

  Mike McDermott : So, it's still mine

  Teddy KGB : For the next eight hours it is yours but if you don't have it all by then, then you are mine

  Mike McDermott : [while the taking money out of his coat and putting it on the counter]  I got ten thousand dollars. I'm looking for a game

  Teddy KGB : You sure?

  Mike McDermott : [adamantly]  You heard me

  Teddy KGB : [stands up]  So, we play heads up: blinds are twenty-five and fifty? And we don't stop until one of us has it all

  Mike McDermott : Let's do it