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Highly Overrated But Still Good

A lot of fun.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

Someone obviously thought this was a good way to exploit the poker craze. I have given it a lot of consideration, and this may the worst film I have ever seen. There must have been panic in the editing room as they came to the realization that this was a huge stinker. Michael Madsen and Louis Gosset would be well served to pool their resources and have it pulled off the market. Why is it bad? The production quality is 1970's game show quality at best. The plot lines , both major and minor, bring to mind the kind of stuff you would usually find in soft core pornography. The soundtrack is made of the worst collection of B sides I've ever heard....It just goes on and on.

I normally don't bother to write reviews, but I couldn't help myself. Someone wrote this movie a positive review and that's why I wasted 30 minutes trying to get through it. This was the most god awful pieces of trash I have seen in a long time. Sometimes bad movies are fun to watch, this was just painful. The acting was ridiculously poor, the dialog was bad and the delivery made it even worse. Even the music was ridiculously cheesy. This makes made for TV movies look good. Apparently someone was just trying to cash in on a fad, and thought they didn't need any real content. Save yourself a trip to the trash can and skip it.

I never write reviews but this was that bad. It looked like a soft core Skinemax flick without the skin. This was one of the worst films I'd ever seen. It really doesn't even make any sense. The ending, especially. I mean, there aren't any card cameras at a 5-million dollar final table? What??? Poor Johnny Juanda and Eric Seidel make cameos, I hope they got paid reeeeeally well. This script must've been written on a napkin. Maybe this was a long commercial for Party Poker.com. And she has time to be in a large poker tournament AND in med school at the same time? There are so many stupid plot points in this film it might only be fun to watch if you make some kind of drinking game out of it.

I recommend this movie to anyone that enjoyed the movie of the week about the alcoholic mother or the secretly bulimic high school girl. I kept looking for the Lifetime logo on the bottom corner of the screen. I'm with the other guy that thinks all the other voters are crazy. I am almost positive that these people were part of the production and really hoped that IMDb readers would watch the movie. I watched this on The Movie Channel last night. There is no way this played in any theater. The only thing cheesier than this movie is the set (Hollywood Park Casino). This is Madsen's second bad poker movie, I believe. He was in Tilt as well on ESPN, I think. I welcome any comments to the contrary. Poker player? Med student? Who cares?