Monday, May 16, 2005

high roller

Ive been trying to find poker related movies of late to watch.
So far I have seen, Cincinati Kid, Card Player and High
Roller the Stu Ungar story. Cincinati kid is an old classic
steve mcqueen film, the poker is 5card stud, which is really
quite a boring game, but despite being an old film its pretty
enteraining. Good things about the film, were the ending
was different, and something about old films, there is always
a classic last line. People say the final hand is
so improbably its ridiciculous, so i decided to deal myself
a draw poker hand. (draw poker allows for a change of
cards, stud doesnt), anyway unbeliveable, i dealt myself
the exact straight flush (including suit) the guy gets
in the movie, and then the following day i dealt myself
Ks full of As, almost the same hand the other guy gets in
the film. Very weird !

The card player is to do with video poker, which is 5
card draw, and there is a serial killer who is challenging
ppl to beat them. And if they fail he kills someone,
its a pretty budget foreign type of movie, but was
watchable.

Finally High Roller - the stu ungar story. Ok, there cant
be a bigger stu ungar fan, than myself, the guy has
won 10 out of 33 major tournaments, which is beyond
phemonenal, he is the best poker player ever, and a
cards genius. But imagine Rounders, and take out
the good actors, some offcut takes of sopranos, and
the worst music in history, and remove any of the
card scenes, and increase the annoying girl scenes
10 fold, and have an hotel room tell my life story
thread, and u have the worst movie i have ever
seen. Considering wat the movie is supposed to be
about. The redeeming factors were that there were 7 of
us who had to suffer through the agony, and that
a lot of the latter half was in 4x speed. I have
never been so disapointed about a film ...

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