Here's something to look forward to. Last week a trailer for the upcoming movie Mississippi Grind (involving high-stakes tournament poker) was uploaded to youtube.
The movie, which was shown for the first time at the Sundance Film Festival in January, is about a gambler, Gerry (Ben Mendelsohn), on a losing streak who teams up with a younger charismatic poker player, Curtis (Ryan Reynolds), in an attempt change his luck. The two hit the road together and travel from town to town, casino to casino with the vision of winning back what has been lost.
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John Hesp, a 64-year-old grandpa from Bridlington, England, who won as a runner-up (4th place) of the 2017 WSOP $10,000 Main Event final table and took home $2.6 million, recently announced that his experience while he was in Las Vegas was utterly remarkable enough that it is going to be turned into a movie!
Many people would agree that Rounders is the best poker movie to date. In 2009, David Levien - one of the writers of Rounders, said in a interview that he had started writing down ideas for a follow-up, which made lots of fans around the world both glad and hopeful. However, fans had to wait until late 2013 before it was officially announced that the classic film from 1998 would be getting a sequel.
