![]() ![]() Matt Damon plays Mike McDermott, a master tactician who took on another great player and lost. With an all-star cast, director John Dahl’s effort focuses on poker culture and why people fall in love with the game. Rounders, which was released in 1998, successfully captured the drama of this poker variation, and had a massive influence in driving Texas hold’em’s popularity. Since then we’ve had a number of bona fide classics such as The Cincinnati kid (1965), The Sting (1973), Honeymoon in Vegas (1992) and more recently Lucky You (2007) to have featured poker prominently.īut the game’s attraction rose in the late 1990s and 2000s thanks to televised Texas hold’em (a form of poker that lent itself to television because of its use of five community cards laid face-up on the table) and the opportunities for new fans to hone their skills at online poker tables. You can go back to Laurence Trimble’s A Cure for Pokeritis (which was released in 1912) to track Hollywood’s love affair with the popular casino game. ![]() The game is inherently dramatic and, when the stakes get really high, poker, particularly in its Texas hold’em style, provides the same sorts of cinematic thrills found in high-speed police chases or superheroes saving a city. There are lots of films featuring poker over the years. ![]()
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