I love poker movies. I don't know why; I'm not that good at the game, myself... but I love 'em. If you're like me, if you have a thing for poker movies, then this movie's for you. It does much more justice to poker than Maverick does. While it is a great movie, Maverick inaccurately portrays poker as a game of chance where any ol' fool can draw an ace of spades and get a royal flush to win a poker tournament. "Ha" is what I say to that. Rounders, on the other hand, sets the record straight. Poker is a very complex skill game and many times during the movie, Rounders will tell you this.
Anyway, Rounders is about a hardcore poker player Mike McDermott (Matt Damon) who quits the game after he loses it all in a hand of No Limit Texas Hold 'Em at a shady club run by Russian Mafia man Teddy KBG (John Malkovich). When Mike learns that his newly-out-of-prison friend Worm (Edward Norton) owes several thousand dollars to a couple of loan sharks, he gets back in the game and the two set out to make a big score and settle their debts.
I highly recommend this movie for anyone who's in the least bit interested in poker.
Anyway, Rounders is about a hardcore poker player Mike McDermott (Matt Damon) who quits the game after he loses it all in a hand of No Limit Texas Hold 'Em at a shady club run by Russian Mafia man Teddy KBG (John Malkovich). When Mike learns that his newly-out-of-prison friend Worm (Edward Norton) owes several thousand dollars to a couple of loan sharks, he gets back in the game and the two set out to make a big score and settle their debts.
I highly recommend this movie for anyone who's in the least bit interested in poker.