What is the best movie featuring poker?
Post your answer in the LEAVE A COMMENT section below. I’m not the boss of you, though. Don’t write anything for all I care! I’d really love to know which poker film you’re all-in for.
. . .here are my thoughts.
What is the best movie featuring poker?
Rounders is the best poker film ever made. Hands down. Rumors often arise about a potential sequel to the 1998 classic. I’m on the fence as to whether I’d ever want that film made. Ruining the memory of the original is a far more likely outcome than doing it justice with a sequel. The 2024 movie, Dead Money, had ambitions of check-raising the title away from Rounders. Two glaring errors, though, left Dead Money just that—all-in, drawing dead. Glancing at a player’s hole cards showed the indices in the top/right corner. I’m sure some designer decks are oriented this way, but I’ve never seen one, yet alone played a hand of poker with one. Anyway, the five cards spread across the table were of standard design with indies in top/left and bottom/right corners. I can chalk this up to a filming error, like when everything’s backward in a selfie. But it still should have been caught during edits. There’s zero excuse, however, for having a poker pro explain how to compute pot odds … incorrectly! No cash game poker pro would fold a hand with 31% equity, needing only 28.4% to profit.