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312player
PostPosted: Thu Oct 10, 2019 8:12 am 
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I saw it once, that was enough. I hated at the end when Damon says something like the same guys make it to the WSOP every year.. Horseshit!

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312player wrote:
I hated at the end when Damon says something like the same guys make it to the WSOP every year.. Horseshit!

That was pretty much true when that movie was made. Only a couple hundred guys played the main event back then compared to thousands of people now. It was much easier to be in the hunt when you only need to outlast a much smaller number of guys. Nowadays it is mostly luck that let you win tournaments that big. Eventually you are going to get a massive bad beat when you're playing in a tournament that now lasts over a week.

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If it was written 10 years before it debuted sure..but I was thinking it at the time it wasn't accurate.

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Recently added on Netflix. The movie is even better if you skip all of the scenes involving his girlfriend, hot as she may be. I’d also advise skipping the heart-to-heart discussions with Martin Landau, because nobody gives a shit.

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I rewatched this movie this past Saturday for the first time in years. It's not as good of a rewatch as I remembered. I would have to say it's not really a good movie and is pretty overloved. I used to love it back when I was in high school.

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I also gave it a re-watch. Good movie. Not great, but i enjoyed it. Same reaction as my first viewing years ago.

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I don't remember it being all that great.


I wasn't a fan...but I don't give a shit about poker, either.

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It had a huge cultural impact with the poker craze on television, at casinos, and with weekly home games.

I still love the movie.

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It had a huge cultural impact with the poker craze on television, at casinos, and with weekly home games.

I still love the movie.


Norman Chad is still making a living on the hype the movie created.

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I’ve seen a lot of poker madness since that movie came out. A small highlight was one of our claims attorneys quitting to become a professional poker player. We also have an underwriter who has won poker star tournaments. Both are very good players.

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Regular Reader wrote:
denisdman wrote:
It had a huge cultural impact with the poker craze on television, at casinos, and with weekly home games.

I still love the movie.


Norman Chad is still making a living on the hype the movie created.


Norman Chad! He's still a thing??

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Yup, he outlived hanging chads.

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