If you're a pretty good poker player, not a pro but someone who has studied the game a little and takes it seriously, playing someone who completely clueless can be harder than playing against someone who is more at your skill level. It's kind of like if you're a halfway decent tennis player, maybe not great but you've learned how to hit a modern topspin forehand and backhand well, have a decent serve, etc., going up against a "pusher" or "junkballer" is harder than playing someone at your skill level. I've played poker against beginners that threw me off because their behavior didn't make sense, and they happened to have cards falling in their favor. Don't get me wrong a top pro poker player can alwasy finish off a beginner and a top pro tennis player can always beat a junk baller/pusher, but like I said people who are just pretty good can have a hard time, get impatient and frustrated because it's so not fun to play people like that, etc.
Yeah I've been the "clueless" guy before playing with friends and have cleaned up. Mostly because of luck, but also I make no effort to have a Poker Face and just have a dopey grin the whole time. But a really good player would wipe the floor with me, because I have obvious tells behind the whole goofball routine.
Pretty much agree, but a lot of that is in your own head. If I'm playing pool against an inferior player, it's a lot more frustrating when he gets 3 or 4 flukes over a few games, I miss a leave by a bit, and so on. It's the "I know I'm better than this guy" mentality that's making me play tight. It's often easier to play against a better opponent because you get locked in.
Yea, back when this movie came out everyone thought Gretchen Mol (the blonde) was going to be this big star. She was even on the cover of Vanity Fair. Then... where did she go?
"There have been lots of movies that have included poker, but only Rounders really captures the energy and tension in the game. And that's why it stands as the best poker movie ever made."
Makes me wonder why Mike did want her. She's hotter than his girlfriend and she shares the passion with cards and she doesn't judge him like the fake smart lawyer
started playing poker during my teens and played years with it, the characterization is pretty much accurate. it is not all about luck or having the cards. it's highly psychological as well. it takes years and experience to learn to control your nerves and improve your card reading and decision-making abilities. if you played poker or any card game long enough, you would easily notice or spot if everyone is on to you or not. we played some card games a few years ago and it is pretty much what happened on this scene. we had some people joining in for some fun. we weren't playing against each other but we were setting up if someone would take on the fish. for the most part, it was me. on most matches, I always have a good hand probably 70% of the time. I don't stay long whenever I notice that I'm not having a good night. every now and then I would get bad beats but not that often.
It sucks that Mike never tried to have a relationship with Petra. Granted he had another girlfriend but this happened after she moved out... It would've been awesome to see the two just banter about poker strategy.
@1:12 guy in the middle...isn't he the same guy that was over at KGB's place in the same table when Mike got demolished and lost his bankroll at the beginning of the movie?
The good thing about my tells is that I do them regardless of the strength of my hand. My general shyness will cause me to get flustered and nervous when I have 2/7 just as much as it would when I have pocket Aces. When we would play games in the college dorms, it was always surprising to people that I had the opposite hands but still acted exactly the same.
You really are entitled by the rules and the nature of the game to play differently against different players - and avoid getting in pots with strong ones. In fact one of the first thing you learn is to isolate bad players. That's not collusion, it's poker.
It's not collision, it's basic strategy. Attack the fish, avoid the stronger players. No need to fight and scratch for chips from sharks when fish are spewing them away. It's only collusion if they start playing together.
Funny thing about rounders is it tells you the most important thing you need to know about poker right at the beginning. If you can't figure out who the sucker is inside of the first 30 minutes, then guess what. Look in the mirror. There's the sucker. Most games there are some people better than you. The key is figuring out who they are. If they're all better than you then it's time to cash in and call it a night.
Love this scene as someone who has been there, done that. Only thing they didn't cover is that not all home games are crap. I got my start in one where standard stack was 1-2k real money. We were all sharks. Same thing would happen when people wandered in there too. Most of us went on to pro or semi-pro with our lifetime earnings breaking over one million. But it was true, when we saw each other in card rooms in the casinos, we loved sitting down and breaking each other's balls a little. The thing people have to realize that they don't mention is that it's not that we "avoided" each other, we just had so many logged hours with each other that we didn't make many mistakes. We knew who and when we could bluff and who wouldn't bluff at all. There are still players from my home game that I'll fold against unless I got the nuts bc I've seen them be tight for years and years. So when casual players would wonder into the casino, it's just that we didn't have their play style, so we looked for tells, which they all had...big time. They hit that on the head. I actually have seen doctors and lawyers wander into our games and get served for the dumbest little things like checking back with your cards when 3 to a flush comes or lifting cards up higher for stronger hands while their eyes widened. Stuff you would assume no one would do in real life, but it happens. The casino game has gotten much harder nowadays as people really learn more and play more. But man, back in the early 2000s, it was like shooting fish in a barrel.
I got into casino poker for a few months back in 2004 or so. Had been playing in friendly games, never took things that seriously, and just started playing the low-end tables for fun at 12 am. Never that big of a crowd. You could always just walk in and find a spot. Then Chris Moneymaker wins the WSP tournament, and boom. Next day, 30-45 min. waits, minimum, for every table save the super-hi rollers. Suddenly everyone there was there to win the biggest and best pot as fast as possible. Stopped being fun. Stopped going. Probably saved a lot of money. I just remember that switch between casual card game and national phenom being like night and day.
Once in a while, when we see a new person coming to the card room (we usually play with the regulars in the poker club that I go to). Someone always “pay” to see that new person’s hold cards when it’s cheap even when we don’t have anything.
Yeah I saw that in a 10-20 limit game for the first time. Dude called then immediately mucked just to see. I thought that was funny, but I guess it's a pro move.
I was those new fish for a good year and half... until I went to different poker rooms and noticed the dealers would play at other casinos and reraise each other boost the pots. All g it’s apart of the game
I was at a casino in Iowa not too long ago were I should have been the fish but actually cleaned up at a 3/6 NL table (and everyone else seemed to know each other). Bought in at 2 hundred and left the table just under 1K. Not a great player by any stretch and I am sure a pro would read me like a book. But like the movie scene, these guys were regulars and I was catching good cards and pretty sure I dont have any obvious tells. Was a fun night. I earned some respect fairly early and that even carried over to the second night (though only broke even that night).
It had a little bit to do with this movie. The poker boom was a direct result of Chris Moneymaker’s win, but Moneymaker has said this was the movie that got him into poker in the first place.
I've played a decent amount of poker in my life, but I never once played in a casino before. It's just weird at a table 8-9 deep playing against some old people. I like to keep it a friendly game between people I know. Of course we know some people are better than others. And some people just have so much money that they can buy in repeatedly and bully people around, and wipe you out on luck eventually.
The old guys who buy in repeatedly are the ones you WANT at your table. It's possible to clear $40,000 in a single night if you've got an unlimited piggy bank like that. Tell me, which casino is that at? Because I would kill for that kind of action.
+Clint E. "He's a typical Hollywood liberal twit" - What does political affiliation have to do with acting talent? Myself, I'm a liberal but I love Clint Eastwood for example. However, I do think Damon has made bad movies... Elysium comes to mind.. ugh
This scene right here did more to "destroy" a recreational poker player's desire to sit in a live game in a casino, more than any scene in motion picture history.
Might have had something to do with mismanagement from the top down. I still remember some epic nights there and some terrible ones as well. Great memories either way.
Jct: I love this clip. John "Great Canadian Gambler" was known as "The Professor": at that Taj Mahal poker room in the1995-2000 heyday of "Long-Odds" Limit Poker where I've held the highest win rate for the past quarter century. Wasn't those 4 years as Teaching Assistant of Canada's only Mathematics of Gambling Course at Carleton University a serendipitous fluke. Sure,. every poker room has their "Professor." So to use the Taj Poker Room for my era's best poker movie where I was The Professor has always been the quintessntial thrill. It was such a beautiful, well-run poker room, Trump set the standard for the world. I chose to make my living there.
It's not that. They're called regulars or "regs" for short. Every card room has them. They play with each other and know each other's playing style cuz they've played together for such a long time. If you frequent a poker room often, always avoid a table with the regs. It usually turns out to be a boring rock fest. Ask for a seat change if you're seated at a table that's full of them but the regs are like anybody else. They tilt and are prone to bad sessions...
@@Hmongboi228 You can still make money off the regs, but as you pointed out it takes longer to take these guys money and the rake begins to eat into your profits more.
so I dont get it. let's say the other player is playing in a way that suggests he has a good hand. Well there's lots of good hands right? So how can him giving away a tell like that indicate that he's got a royal flush or just 4 of a kind?
I am a professional live poker player, Playing against a fish is easier. The loose/passive ones are especially easy. If they are loose/aggressive win rate is still good, but variance increases. In live play they are full of tells, and are not knowledgeable enough to use false tells.
@@papigringo5692 I remember once I got a pocket of Aces I raised but everyone called me. I flopped a set and I raised again but they called me anyway didn't want to take a risk so I checked on the turn everyone checked and the River comes another Ace...You know the rest I went All in and two guys called me one with 2 pairs and the other with a Flush thanks to the last Ace. If I was playing against pros I wouldn't have a Quad Aces
Matt Damon's character is so smart and great and poker, like his friends, that's why they got their asses kicked and running away all the time, no money, stink heads
The only suckers are the ones who think living their lives in a grim, fake lit grubby casino, sponging off occasional passing players is somehow more noble than the hard working people they grift off. They are the living dead
Don't know how it took me this long to note what's happening at 1:55... homie's looking at his lady's hand... presumably telling her what to do with it... while he has a hand! Only in the shittiest poker room would this be allowed!
"If we wanted to take each others rolls, we could have just stayed home" is a good example of how jumbled/sloppy this film was in many ways. It never could decide if it wanted to be a snappy form over substance Guy Ritchie type deal, or the opposite. Still worth watching though.
James Kim The movie was standard Hold'em, 5 community, 2 in the hole. Made after WSoP started to get big on TV and trying to pull in more audience (eg higher ratings), so it was going on standard tournament format.
The guy at 1:44 has two Redbirds in front of him while cards are being dealt so they're either plying 5/10 or he's straddling in 2/5. Honestly 2/5 would be more believable considering their stack sizes...... And the fact that random fish aren't constantly sitting in 5/10 games.
Do they have a poker room again? I remember they had this iconic room empty for years and no poker. It was quite upsetting to see after all the time I played there.
@@klenmcrock5265 I’m not 100% sure but I believe I glanced at it if you’re really interested in going to play there I would call them up and see if they have a poker room
The good old days, when a few true fish did come over to play poker. Now the true fish only play craps, and 6-5 blackjack. Today, even the fish in the 1/2 NL game talk about balancing their three bet ranges preflop, and argue the merits of exploitive vs GTO strategies.
@@longlivelife3173 Agreed, alot of fish have learned the lingo, but zero understanding. Speaks of balancing 3bet ranges and proceeds to limp Q4s UTG+1, call down with second pair, etc..
There's no shortage of players out there who sound knowledgeable, but don't know how to correctly apply it. The super easy money as you pointed out is long gone. Even the pros 20 years ago would be losing players in today's games.
the whole movie not even a single bad beat ... made me love the game but excluded some nasty parts of it :) nothing more fun than calling a maniac shuving all in preflop with ak and ending with A high vs a pair of 3 with j kicker
@@LucianDevine that is not a bad beat that is a cold deck ... he was losing the whole way i am talking about the case where you make the right decision and get punished for it .. what you mentioned was just a case of cold deck where 2 people had a very good hand that you should not get away from it (as you recall the final scene he lays 2 pairs on the flop while kgb had a straight , its also a cold deck but he had a tell on him so he managed to get out without losing too many chips) but there is a difference between a cold deck and bad beat ,,, you got to be able to make the difference between those 2 and no , there isnt any bad beat in the whole movie ,,,
Just one of a thousand reasons I don't bother gambling. I don't know the game, I don't know how many tells I got, if I played I would be the sucker they were waiting for.
Don’t get in the game unless it’s 1 on 1. When You sit down at the table There are competitors Who are in cahoots with each other just like in this scene It’s all a scam
Famke Janssen? I must watch this movie some time. Star Trek The Next Generation metamorph. "Kamala". I know what you are thinking. Perfect! Mate. In STTNG and my Universe women are allowed to persist. Still. Is this seat TAKEN?
If you're a pretty good poker player, not a pro but someone who has studied the game a little and takes it seriously, playing someone who completely clueless can be harder than playing against someone who is more at your skill level. It's kind of like if you're a halfway decent tennis player, maybe not great but you've learned how to hit a modern topspin forehand and backhand well, have a decent serve, etc., going up against a "pusher" or "junkballer" is harder than playing someone at your skill level. I've played poker against beginners that threw me off because their behavior didn't make sense, and they happened to have cards falling in their favor. Don't get me wrong a top pro poker player can alwasy finish off a beginner and a top pro tennis player can always beat a junk baller/pusher, but like I said people who are just pretty good can have a hard time, get impatient and frustrated because it's so not fun to play people like that, etc.
same with fencing, a newb will take actions a non newb would never try.
wow, I play both tennis and poker at a semi-decent level and this is accurate!
Yeah I've been the "clueless" guy before playing with friends and have cleaned up. Mostly because of luck, but also I make no effort to have a Poker Face and just have a dopey grin the whole time.
But a really good player would wipe the floor with me, because I have obvious tells behind the whole goofball routine.
Pretty much agree, but a lot of that is in your own head. If I'm playing pool against an inferior player, it's a lot more frustrating when he gets 3 or 4 flukes over a few games, I miss a leave by a bit, and so on. It's the "I know I'm better than this guy" mentality that's making me play tight. It's often easier to play against a better opponent because you get locked in.
Reminds me of the 30 Rock where Alec Baldwin kept losing to Kenneth
"You don't see piranha eating themselves, do ya?" Nope!
Man, the whole movie, Mike is with that uptight blonde when he should've been going hard for Famke.
Yep.
Bad judgement...
-Teddy KGB on Mike
You mean Xenia Onnatop?
Yea, back when this movie came out everyone thought Gretchen Mol (the blonde) was going to be this big star. She was even on the cover of Vanity Fair. Then... where did she go?
@@GeometricMason if I remember correctly she had to blow harvey Weinstein for the part and she didn't want to do deal with Hollywood after that.
Ahh the Taj.. The FIRST poker room that I played in. This clip is simply nostalgia.. Those "Taj poker" days are long gone...
Miss the Taj big time...
Total dump. Be a third rate room in Vegas in 1995
@@blondegirlsezthis8798 it might have been a dump but it was OUR dump, damnit. used to love those midnight tournies
I was happy when I binked a $400 bonus on a slot machine there 2 weeks before it closed in 2016, score
Timeless movie, underrated soundtrack and great acting
Especially my boy Eddie Norton!
Tuturro carrying his chips like his cue case in „color of money“ made me laugh the first time seeing it. ^^
Wow I didn't even notice that
You never actually see Turturro shooting pool in Color of Money so I have to think his pool game in real life isn't that good.
This scene, among a couple of others in cinema, taught me the lesson to avoid AC and gambling in general, like the clap.
If you wanna count cards, do it in Las Vegas! Oh wait .... 🤔😀
Damn Famke Janssen is bangin!
She’s not so hot anymore. Check out her recent botched plastic surgery! Her face and cheeks are so swollen her looks are all distorted. What a shame.
@@kevinobrien9271 I don’t care about want she looks now I commented on what she looks like in this.
One of the best poker movie ever made: Exciting, entertaining and educational. It's encouraging to both Players and Non-Players.
damn i don't remember this movie looking so NINETIES
"There have been lots of movies that have included poker, but only Rounders really captures the energy and tension in the game. And that's why it stands as the best poker movie ever made."
Petra is so beautiful! Plus she's a card player! Perfect woman!
All day
Dangerous combination.
Makes me wonder why Mike did want her. She's hotter than his girlfriend and she shares the passion with cards and she doesn't judge him like the fake smart lawyer
If they ever did a sequel, id hope she was the love interest@@tareklegrand7747
1:13 - actor on the left with glasses and striped shirt, pure hunting mode. Brilliant.
All us Rounders fans think we play like the pros but the suckers here are how the actual pros see us 😉
started playing poker during my teens and played years with it, the characterization is pretty much accurate. it is not all about luck or having the cards. it's highly psychological as well. it takes years and experience to learn to control your nerves and improve your card reading and decision-making abilities. if you played poker or any card game long enough, you would easily notice or spot if everyone is on to you or not. we played some card games a few years ago and it is pretty much what happened on this scene. we had some people joining in for some fun. we weren't playing against each other but we were setting up if someone would take on the fish. for the most part, it was me. on most matches, I always have a good hand probably 70% of the time. I don't stay long whenever I notice that I'm not having a good night. every now and then I would get bad beats but not that often.
table full of comics, Alan Havey, Joe Vega and Lenny Clarke
It sucks that Mike never tried to have a relationship with Petra. Granted he had another girlfriend but this happened after she moved out... It would've been awesome to see the two just banter about poker strategy.
mike was smart enough to stay away from her, she was pretty, but bad news….
@1:12 guy in the middle...isn't he the same guy that was over at KGB's place in the same table when Mike got demolished and lost his bankroll at the beginning of the movie?
looks like it
The good thing about my tells is that I do them regardless of the strength of my hand. My general shyness will cause me to get flustered and nervous when I have 2/7 just as much as it would when I have pocket Aces. When we would play games in the college dorms, it was always surprising to people that I had the opposite hands but still acted exactly the same.
"These two don't know what they're walking into." Yeah, collusion from the regulars, LOL.
You really are entitled by the rules and the nature of the game to play differently against different players - and avoid getting in pots with strong ones. In fact one of the first thing you learn is to isolate bad players. That's not collusion, it's poker.
unless we speak codes. two fish hooks laying dead in the water.
Not collusion.. just a matter of time before they lose a couple hundred :)
It's not collision, it's basic strategy. Attack the fish, avoid the stronger players.
No need to fight and scratch for chips from sharks when fish are spewing them away.
It's only collusion if they start playing together.
@@DustinDoesPoker It's collusion if they merely REFRAIN generally from taking money from each other.
"Yea, like my wife occasionally went out with other men."
Funny thing about rounders is it tells you the most important thing you need to know about poker right at the beginning. If you can't figure out who the sucker is inside of the first 30 minutes, then guess what. Look in the mirror. There's the sucker. Most games there are some people better than you. The key is figuring out who they are. If they're all better than you then it's time to cash in and call it a night.
Love this scene as someone who has been there, done that. Only thing they didn't cover is that not all home games are crap. I got my start in one where standard stack was 1-2k real money. We were all sharks. Same thing would happen when people wandered in there too. Most of us went on to pro or semi-pro with our lifetime earnings breaking over one million. But it was true, when we saw each other in card rooms in the casinos, we loved sitting down and breaking each other's balls a little. The thing people have to realize that they don't mention is that it's not that we "avoided" each other, we just had so many logged hours with each other that we didn't make many mistakes. We knew who and when we could bluff and who wouldn't bluff at all. There are still players from my home game that I'll fold against unless I got the nuts bc I've seen them be tight for years and years. So when casual players would wonder into the casino, it's just that we didn't have their play style, so we looked for tells, which they all had...big time. They hit that on the head. I actually have seen doctors and lawyers wander into our games and get served for the dumbest little things like checking back with your cards when 3 to a flush comes or lifting cards up higher for stronger hands while their eyes widened. Stuff you would assume no one would do in real life, but it happens. The casino game has gotten much harder nowadays as people really learn more and play more. But man, back in the early 2000s, it was like shooting fish in a barrel.
I got into casino poker for a few months back in 2004 or so. Had been playing in friendly games, never took things that seriously, and just started playing the low-end tables for fun at 12 am. Never that big of a crowd. You could always just walk in and find a spot.
Then Chris Moneymaker wins the WSP tournament, and boom. Next day, 30-45 min. waits, minimum, for every table save the super-hi rollers. Suddenly everyone there was there to win the biggest and best pot as fast as possible. Stopped being fun. Stopped going. Probably saved a lot of money. I just remember that switch between casual card game and national phenom being like night and day.
The best part of this scene is his narration of the players then doing exact same thing in final hand of movie.
Once in a while, when we see a new person coming to the card room (we usually play with the regulars in the poker club that I go to). Someone always “pay” to see that new person’s hold cards when it’s cheap even when we don’t have anything.
Their hole calds?
@@fiedler1219 yes bud.
Yeah I saw that in a 10-20 limit game for the first time. Dude called then immediately mucked just to see. I thought that was funny, but I guess it's a pro move.
Great cast. A young Famke Janssen from the James Bond movie was a very beautiful sight.
I was those new fish for a good year and half... until I went to different poker rooms and noticed the dealers would play at other casinos and reraise each other boost the pots. All g it’s apart of the game
Jean Grey at the table with Jason Bourne and the guy from Fight Club? Lol
And the Jesus, mon, from TBL
And the elementary principal from Billy Madison.
I was at a casino in Iowa not too long ago were I should have been the fish but actually cleaned up at a 3/6 NL table (and everyone else seemed to know each other). Bought in at 2 hundred and left the table just under 1K. Not a great player by any stretch and I am sure a pro would read me like a book. But like the movie scene, these guys were regulars and I was catching good cards and pretty sure I dont have any obvious tells. Was a fun night. I earned some respect fairly early and that even carried over to the second night (though only broke even that night).
They were making sure you would come back....fish.
who scratches the back of their neck while focused on a poker game!?
Well what if theu actually got an insane itch or a bug flys onto the back of their neck?
This movie predicted the future. Just a few years later, poker would explode into pop culture, and it had absolutely nothing to do with this movie.
It had a little bit to do with this movie. The poker boom was a direct result of Chris Moneymaker’s win, but Moneymaker has said this was the movie that got him into poker in the first place.
I can't watch John Turturro without thinking about his Jesus-part in the Big Lebowski.
what the hell is mark watney doing playing poker, shouldn't he be studying botany? and why is liam neeson's wife flirting with him?
+niteshmurti is that a cheap nerdy joke? thats rhetorical
Actually i have seen piranha's eating each other
Haha best comment.
I've played a decent amount of poker in my life, but I never once played in a casino before. It's just weird at a table 8-9 deep playing against some old people. I like to keep it a friendly game between people I know. Of course we know some people are better than others. And some people just have so much money that they can buy in repeatedly and bully people around, and wipe you out on luck eventually.
The old guys who buy in repeatedly are the ones you WANT at your table. It's possible to clear $40,000 in a single night if you've got an unlimited piggy bank like that. Tell me, which casino is that at? Because I would kill for that kind of action.
JOhn Turturro sounds like Mitch Hedberg here.
matt damon is so cool !
+Clint E.
"He's a typical Hollywood liberal twit" - What does political affiliation have to do with acting talent? Myself, I'm a liberal but I love Clint Eastwood for example.
However, I do think Damon has made bad movies... Elysium comes to mind.. ugh
Doesn't make him a good poker player
I liked Elysium. Can we still be friends?
you should watch him at the wsop, pretty bad player but good actor
I never knew Phoenix was in this movie LOL!
In real life, it's not the tells that give a player away as a fish; it's their losing all their money really quickly.
This scene right here did more to "destroy" a recreational poker player's desire to sit in a live game in a casino, more than any scene in motion picture history.
What’s with the sitcom background music
Such a fantastic film one of my top ten of best films of all time.
Best part of this clip is the reminder that the Taj is no longer there, my goodness that place had turned into a dump.
Keith Mason check out Clowning a Rounders
Might have had something to do with mismanagement from the top down. I still remember some epic nights there and some terrible ones as well. Great memories either way.
I don't even ay cards and I love this movie
Phwoar Famke janssen. ..yes please
Would like a longer movie clip and minus the 30 seconds of ads, ,
Good movie 👍 especially at the end of the movie when he wins !!! 😀😀🔥👌💪
KGB:" he beit me, streiat sup, peya dat min"
never knew Freddie Mercury was a poker player
Thin mustache guy at 2:01 looks like Oscar Issac
God, Famke Janssen was beautiful back then.
She still is!
@@DCD4Ever negative.. not saying she's ugly, but..
@@emiromiranda1214 - That's ok; not everyone has good taste.
Jct: I love this clip. John "Great Canadian Gambler" was known as "The Professor": at that Taj Mahal poker room in the1995-2000 heyday of "Long-Odds" Limit Poker where I've held the highest win rate for the past quarter century. Wasn't those 4 years as Teaching Assistant of Canada's only Mathematics of Gambling Course at Carleton University a serendipitous fluke. Sure,. every poker room has their "Professor." So to use the Taj Poker Room for my era's best poker movie where I was The Professor has always been the quintessntial thrill. It was such a beautiful, well-run poker room, Trump set the standard for the world. I chose to make my living there.
This seems typical of the poker at the taj. groups of cheaters at the same table
First live game I ever played was at the Taj, the setting in the movie brings back memories. Too bad the whole casino is gone now.
you do realise that they aren't actually cheating in this scene, right?
It's not that. They're called regulars or "regs" for short. Every card room has them. They play with each other and know each other's playing style cuz they've played together for such a long time. If you frequent a poker room often, always avoid a table with the regs. It usually turns out to be a boring rock fest. Ask for a seat change if you're seated at a table that's full of them but the regs are like anybody else. They tilt and are prone to bad sessions...
@@Hmongboi228 You can still make money off the regs, but as you pointed out it takes longer to take these guys money and the rake begins to eat into your profits more.
I missed the Taj poker room where I learned to play
very hard to hear
so I dont get it. let's say the other player is playing in a way that suggests he has a good hand. Well there's lots of good hands right? So how can him giving away a tell like that indicate that he's got a royal flush or just 4 of a kind?
and this is why ive never sat at poker at a casino.
I'm a professional poker player, I can tell you. Playing against a fish is significantly harder than playing against a good player.
I am a professional live poker player, Playing against a fish is easier. The loose/passive ones are especially easy. If they are loose/aggressive win rate is still good, but variance increases. In live play they are full of tells, and are not knowledgeable enough to use false tells.
Call
Playing against one fish isn't hard, in my experience. Playing against numerous fish at the same table is a nightmare.
@@papigringo5692 I remember once I got a pocket of Aces I raised but everyone called me. I flopped a set and I raised again but they called me anyway didn't want to take a risk so I checked on the turn everyone checked and the River comes another Ace...You know the rest I went All in and two guys called me one with 2 pairs and the other with a Flush thanks to the last Ace. If I was playing against pros I wouldn't have a Quad Aces
Is that the borgata?
music at the beggining??
Funk 49 by the James Gang
Jean Grey?
Matt Damon's character is so smart and great and poker, like his friends, that's why they got their asses kicked and running away all the time, no money, stink heads
Actually you do see piranhas eating each other.
True, and you also see poker sharks going after each other in ego battles. Happens.
The pro players at the table should have started chanting FRESH FISH when the newbie players arrived at the table.
Why would they do something so incredibly stupid?
Buena película
Mikey must of had a past with Petra, no??
Obviously.. notice how she looks and talks to him every time she sees him.. I mean she's throwing it like John Elway. You know he smashed that.
Yep its alluded to when she comes by to collect Ed norton's vig from Mike
Imagine if at the end, the guys on the table are the suckers.
Is that Daniel Negreanu? 😆
The only suckers are the ones who think living their lives in a grim, fake lit grubby casino, sponging off occasional passing players is somehow more noble than the hard working people they grift off. They are the living dead
Found the guy who lost money to pros lol
Don't know how it took me this long to note what's happening at 1:55... homie's looking at his lady's hand... presumably telling her what to do with it... while he has a hand! Only in the shittiest poker room would this be allowed!
This was at the Taj, which was just about the shittiest poker room on the east coast, soooo...
"If we wanted to take each others rolls, we could have just stayed home" is a good example of how jumbled/sloppy this film was in many ways. It never could decide if it wanted to be a snappy form over substance Guy Ritchie type deal, or the opposite. Still worth watching though.
Is it Winchestertonfieldsville, Dr pepper, fell down the stairs
Anyone know what game they playing here?
It's called Texas Hold 'Em. It's kind of like poker.
***** *face palm* I meant the specific game (2/5, 1/2).. good one though you smart ass.
James Kim
The movie was standard Hold'em, 5 community, 2 in the hole. Made after WSoP started to get big on TV and trying to pull in more audience (eg higher ratings), so it was going on standard tournament format.
RC Slyman you said "two in the hole" lolololololol
The guy at 1:44 has two Redbirds in front of him while cards are being dealt so they're either plying 5/10 or he's straddling in 2/5. Honestly 2/5 would be more believable considering their stack sizes...... And the fact that random fish aren't constantly sitting in 5/10 games.
Could you make this clip any quieter?
Xenia!
Love this movie
Famke yeah huge crush on her
... and don't forget: Josh Mostel ... son of Zero Mostel - Principal in BILLY MADISON!!! CITY SLICKERS!!! JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR!! RADIO DAYS!!!
Girl at the table looks like Kali from R6
What's up with mat Damon always playing some kind of protege
Now they turned it in to the hard rock casino
Do they have a poker room again? I remember they had this iconic room empty for years and no poker. It was quite upsetting to see after all the time I played there.
@@klenmcrock5265 I was only there one time and I believe the poker room it’s in the same place as the Taj Mahal
@@klenmcrock5265 I’m not 100% sure but I believe I glanced at it if you’re really interested in going to play there I would call them up and see if they have a poker room
@@mikemarks1834 I'd would but I'm living in Florida now. Thanks for the feedback.
The good old days, when a few true fish did come over to play poker. Now the true fish only play craps, and 6-5 blackjack. Today, even the fish in the 1/2 NL game talk about balancing their three bet ranges preflop, and argue the merits of exploitive vs GTO strategies.
MrZola1234 it’s partly true. There’s still fish out there ready to piss away their paychecks, depending on where you go.
They can know as much theory as they want: in practice, their are tons of fish left in the sea.
And where did they get the money to build the craps tables? Junk bonds.
@@longlivelife3173 Agreed, alot of fish have learned the lingo, but zero understanding. Speaks of balancing 3bet ranges and proceeds to limp Q4s UTG+1, call down with second pair, etc..
There's no shortage of players out there who sound knowledgeable, but don't know how to correctly apply it. The super easy money as you pointed out is long gone. Even the pros 20 years ago would be losing players in today's games.
That kenesh dude is from transformer...
such a good movie
the whole movie not even a single bad beat ...
made me love the game but excluded some nasty parts of it :)
nothing more fun than calling a maniac shuving all in preflop with ak and ending with A high vs a pair of 3 with j kicker
Not a single bad beat? What about the opening hand with nines full of aces getting beaten by aces full of nines?
@@LucianDevine that is not a bad beat
that is a cold deck ...
he was losing the whole way
i am talking about the case where you make the right decision and get punished for it ..
what you mentioned was just a case of cold deck where 2 people had a very good hand that you should not get away from it
(as you recall the final scene he lays 2 pairs on the flop while kgb had a straight , its also a cold deck but he had a tell on him so he managed to get out without losing too many chips)
but there is a difference between a cold deck and bad beat ,,, you got to be able to make the difference between those 2
and no , there isnt any bad beat in the whole movie ,,,
Its not that simple being a poker pro I would know
mike shouldve stayed in AC and played cards rather than try to cheat at that cops game..
Gal is always so easy on the eyes.
Uhhh Gal Gadot was like 12-13 when this movie was made
Humble, 🚭👏👏
How comfortable would you feel woth everyone else knowing each other? Lmao. Wtf? Collusion
Just one of a thousand reasons I don't bother gambling. I don't know the game, I don't know how many tells I got, if I played I would be the sucker they were waiting for.
Then why did you watch this video?
If you cant then dont tell stories why
This looks like a pretty good movie
It is the bible for Texas Holdem players.
B S it’s not that good, but really not that bad either. Corny at times, but I still watch it from time to time 🤷♂️
Isn't that henry cavill at 2:02?
no, he was like 12 back then
Sorry but he'll no
That's him..
Wait a minute.... are they playing 1/2?
It looks like they are playing 10-20 limit holdem.
LUL LIMIT
This movie might have gotten it's proper due if it wasn't about degenerate gamblers
Famke Janssen....
Don’t get in the game unless it’s 1 on 1. When You sit down at the table There are competitors Who are in cahoots with each other just like in this scene It’s all a scam
Famke Janssen? I must watch this movie some time. Star Trek The Next Generation metamorph. "Kamala". I know what you are thinking. Perfect! Mate. In STTNG and my Universe women are allowed to persist. Still.
Is this seat TAKEN?
What not even gonna throw an X-men reference in there?
No that's fake janssen from x men lol
they also double deal and switch cards and signal each other and 100% cheat
1:50 - Is that Brad?