BlockHead76 This movie was a royal flush of crap. Besides the horrible poker standards from a technical standpoint. I was stunned to see it had four writers. The dialogue was appropriate for an MTV drama. I was disappointed to see Michael Madsen attached to such a donkey of a movie. I guess he has to eat too. James Russo was his usual one note gruff self. The Director apparently brought his vast acting expertise as a walk on character actor (mostly featured extra roles)to direct his mostly young, pin-up looks but shallow as a puddle cast. the subplots were inane and muddled. This film was a train wreck riding the popularity of hold' em's recent rise to prominence. The Soundtrack was completely unsuited to the tone of the movie. The Main character is capable of only righteous indignation as an emotion. the 10 yr old version was much more convincing as a real character than the "grown-up" version we are supposed to empathize with. This is 90 minutes of my life I'll want back someday.

vashukun This movie is to say it quickly bad.the poker played in this is pretty unbelievable getting straights and flushes on the river, playing the shittiest cards in poker and hitting.the acting was also something really bad, alright they had a good actor (Michael Madsen) who was in it for maybe 15 mins tops the plot twist and turned every scene change, i am not sure if it wanted to be a movie about love, becoming a doctor or playing poker. although it did try to be all 3 and failed really badly and was really really predictable, especially the last poker hand played.if you plan to see this movie, just don't its a complete waste of time.

ttbw7 This was by far the worst film I have ever seen in my entire life. The plot was absolutely ridiculous. The idea of making money off of poker was somehow sprung upon the audience with very little coherent reasoning or explanation ("Oh you're sort of good at poker based on the one hand that you won when we were drinking and playing strip-poker, so let's pay off hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of debts with our combined pseudo-talents! YAY!"). Absolutely everything about this film was awful. The script, the acting, and the photography were nothing short of laughable. I wouldn't normally post a comment at all on a film so terrible, but, somehow, this film managed to be so particularly horrendous that it was thought provoking in itself.

lassoff This was the worse movie I've seen in a long, long time. So bad, I was shouting derisions at the TV screen. The acting was from HELL, the writing was moronic, but more disturbing is the obviously planted "rave" reviews in this IMDb comment page. Who do you think you're fooling? Do you think if you manufactured praise that it makes it true or valid? This was complete CRAP! I can't imagine so many people went about this production with their head up their ass not knowing how bad this film would be. Who was the actress sleeping with to get a chance to blow this role? Who is the screenwriter related to? Was the producers trying to launder money or are they just blind and stupid. The "real" has-been stars were just phoning in their parts and taking their paychecks and who could blame them. Everyone involved please leave show business immediately and do something more productive and meaningful. Like street-sweeping. Spare us any other attempts. Please.