Rounders- great movie! How many poker errors (string bets, etc.)?

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Like many of you, I was never the same after watching the movie Rounders. I have a copy that I break out from time to time for a "fix". Regardless, I have identified several "poker errors" in the film (string bets, etc.):rolleyes: ... how many have you noticed?
 
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there are hundreds, but the majority of games in the movie are "home games" or illegal games, all except 1 are player dealt so string bets, action out of turn, splashing the pot etc and other rule breaking is to be expected.
 
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Caught this movie on demand this weekend. Love watching it everytime .. great movie!
 
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FOR ALL THOSE THAT HAVE WATCHED ROUNDERS - THE EUROPEAN VERSION...

EuroRounders

Michel (voiceover): "If you can't find the boorish
American hold'em player at the table within half an
hour, you are the boorish American hold'em player."

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TITLE/CREDITS. This entire movie is in black and
white, with subtitles.

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Michel (voiceover): "This game is really scummy, and
well above what I can afford to play. My entire
bankroll is riding on this one session going well.
This is Teddy CIA's place, where they only play Pot
Limit Omaha, the most sophisticated game in Europe."

- Michel knocks on the window -

Teddy CIA: "You want poker, or whore?"

Michel: "Poker. Give me three stacks of high, elitist
society."

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Michel: "I raise."

Teddy CIA: "It's a position raise. I call."

- The flop comes 5-7-A, with two diamonds -

Michel: "I bet the pot."

Teddy CIA: "I raise the pot."

Michel: "I reraise the pot."

Teddy CIA: "I reraise the pot."

Michel: "Pot."

Teddy CIA: "Pot."

Michel: "Pot."

Teddy CIA: "Pot."

Michel: "Pot."

Teddy CIA: "Pot."

Michel (voiceover): "I sit back and think. I have
three aces - the best possible hand. I want him to
think I'm debating a call, but really I'm just
thinking about Monte Carlo, and whatever the
[censored] is in Monte Carlo."

Michel: *shrugs* "Okay, well, I re-pot it, I'm all in,
because I don't think you have a pair." *winks at the
camera*

Teddy CIA: "Who are you winking at? It doesn't matter,
I call."

Michel (voiceover): "I know before he even says it."

Teddy CIA: "I have 8-6-4-3 with two diamonds, for a
wrap straight draw and a flush draw, which is a
favorite over your top set."

- Turn is a King. River is a 2 which gives Teddy CIA
an ace-to-five straight for the win. -

- Michel sits there, shell-shocked. -

Joey Croissant: "Come on, I'll get you a whore."

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Michel (voiceover): "Well, that sucked. Since then,
I've sworn off of poker and made my living as a
roadside prostitute for boorish American tourists.
Hopefully, I can pay my way through law school that
way. I can always find games, though. I could turn
this truck onto the road and be at the Taj in 19 and a
half hours."

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Michel (voiceover): "I'm here to pick my friend Worm
up from prison."

- Worm walks out of prison -

Michel: "Worm! It's wonderful to see you!"

- They kiss each other passionately on the mouth -

Michel: "How was prison?"

Worm: "I was brutally sodomized on a regular basis."

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Michel: "Look...Croissant, I never told you this, but
about a year ago, I was playing poker at the Casino
des Atlantes, and Marcel Luske walks in. He sits down
at the 50/100 pot limit game. And, I mean, the whole
place stops, right? Just watching this guy play. After
a while there isn't a retarded European gambling game
going, because everybody's just, you know, watching
this guy."

- Joey Croissant nods -

Michel: "So you know what I did? I sat down."

Joey Croissant: "No way, you need at least 300,000
euros to sit down at a game like that. Such bad
financial management is typical of a boorish
American!"

- Joey Croissant and Michel laugh for twenty-six
minutes -

Michel: "Right, okay, but seriously, I played for an
hour, doing nothing but folding. Then I won a huge
pot."

Joey Croissant: "Aces? Kings? Ace-King doublesuited?
Suited aces? High connectors? Middle doublesuited
connectors? Two big pair?"

Michel: "Rags."

Joey Croissant: "That's probably fine too, you're only
like a 48/52 dog."

Michel: "I raised. And he came over the top of me,
like I was a boorish American. I re-popped it. He
potted it again. I think for like two seconds and then
I re-pot it."

Joey Croissant: "Jesus [censored] Christ, how much
money did you have?"

Michel: "After I bet I would quietly slide my chips
back toward my stack, nobody noticed. Anyway, he
thinks for a while, looks at me, checks his cards
again, and he mucks. I take it down. And then he looks
at me and says, 'I have to know. Did you have it?' And
I said, 'I'm sorry Marcel, I can't remember.'"

Joey Croissant: "Face!"

Michel: "I know, totally. Anyway, based on that one
hand, I felt confident gambling for all the money I
had, at one time."

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Law Professor: "I am a Jew."

Michel: "I hate you."

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Teddy CIA: "We play, heads up, Pot Limit Omaha, 25 and
50 blinds, until one of us has it all?"

Michel: "Out of sheer curiosity, you realize you're
giving up like boat loads of equity by agreeing to
gamble for money that's effectively yours anyway,
right? That you could just not let me play, and then
kill me and take what I have?"

Teddy CIA: "I know, but I am a boorish American!"

- Michel and Teddy CIA laugh for seventy-two minutes -

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Michel (voiceover): "I pick up Ace-Ace-Jack-Ten
doublesuited."

Michel: "I raise the pot."

Teddy CIA: "Very aggressive. But, I reraise the pot."

Michael (voiceover): "He's representing
Ace-Ace-King-King doublesuited, the only hand better
than mine. I can't call, and give him a chance to
catch. I can only fold...if I believe him."

Michel: "I reraise, I'm all in."

Teddy CIA: "Take it down."

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- The flop reads 10-9-5, with two spades -

Michel: "Pot."

Teddy CIA: "Pot."

Michel: "Pot."

Teddy CIA: "Pot."

Michel: "Pot."

Teddy CIA: "Pot."

Michel: "Pot. I'm all in."

Teddy CIA: "Alright, I call. What do you have?"

Michel: "Jack high flush draw and middle set."

Teddy CIA: "Wrap, with a king high flush draw."

Michel: "Boy, I sure hope my 5:4 edge holds up,
otherwise I am going to die."

- Turn is an off-suit 5, giving Michel an unbeatable
hand. But the river is the ace of spades anyway,
because it's always the [censored] ace of spades. -

Teddy CIA: "He beat me. Pay that man his money. His
silly, silly-looking European money."

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Cab Driver: "Where are you off to?"

Michel: "Monte Carlo."

Cab Driver: "Good luck."

Michel: "Shut the [censored] up."
 
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I watched it this week. I know its just a movie but It left me wondering how far would the main character get in the wsop main event.
 
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i don't understand how string betting would be an error. Is there some unwritten rule that you have to play text book poker?
 
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good flick there is afew gaming type movies I like,owning mahowney,stu unger movie,two for the money
 
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I watched it this week. I know its just a movie but It left me wondering how far would the main character get in the WSOP main event.

And this is why there should be a sequel.
 
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And this is why there should be a sequel.

From what I saw from searching on Google Mat Damon wants there to be a second movie as well. There is a chance it might happen. I wonder if the hero of the movie started to play poker online. That wasn't really a option at his time was it?
 
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A sequel would be sweet. On a side note, I love the credit people give Matt Damon at the poker table because if this movie when in reality he's actually a pretty bad poker player.
 
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I watched it this week. I know its just a movie but It left me wondering how far would the main character get in the WSOP main event.

he played some high stakes poker and didn't do too well lost maybe a tidy percentage of what he had made from rounders
 
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From what I saw from searching on Google Mat Damon wants there to be a second movie as well. There is a chance it might happen. I wonder if the hero of the movie started to play poker online. That wasn't really a option at his time was it?

justin timberlake is staring in new poker release this year runner runner,

which in my eyes will be every bit as good as a sequal to rounders as it covers the online game where as rounders is well outdated,
it may not be a success story but more people are losers than winners over a lifetime so i think its pretty relitive and more on fetch with reality and cheating etc which is obviously a possibility
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2364841/
 
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The first time I watched Rounders really gave my confidence in poker a boost. It was that first hand he played where he lost his whole bankroll. I knew his mistake right off the bat and what the russian had.

So even if it was clearly obvious what his mistake was, it still felt good to pick up on it and be proven correct!
 
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I loved the movie, I was gutted we did not see his run @ the WSOP.

They should of done a second with him being in the WSOP
 
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lol, there are so many but who cares. The movie is one of the greatest movies of all time clearly. For all the wrong doing in poker they do in the movie. Its okay, most of it is done at home game setting anyways. We wont punish them to hard for that.
 
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I loved the movie, I was gutted we did not see his run @ the WSOP.

They should of done a second with him being in the WSOP

There seems to be a debate who it was based on; so if they made the WSOP, how they did, etc. is up in the air. Maybe I just could not spend enough time researching it to find out?

Anyone got a lock on those questions: who was it based on, what did they end up doing, where are they today?
 
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I heard a rounders sequel is coming out in 2014. I hope so I love that movie..
 
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justin timberlake is staring in new poker release this year runner runner,

which in my eyes will be every bit as good as a sequal to rounders as it covers the online game where as rounders is well outdated,
it may not be a success story but more people are losers than winners over a lifetime so i think its pretty relitive and more on fetch with reality and cheating etc which is obviously a possibility
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2364841/

It doesn't look as though there will be lots of poker in that, to me that looks like it'll be a typical modern day action movie. Maybe still worth watching but Not a really great poker movie like rounders
 
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The first time I watched Rounders really gave my confidence in poker a boost. It was that first hand he played where he lost his whole bankroll. I knew his mistake right off the bat and what the russian had.

So even if it was clearly obvious what his mistake was, it still felt good to pick up on it and be proven correct!

Out of curiosity: what do you think was his mistake?
 
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i already watched this movie three times and can watch again :)
 
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