Looking for the next new movie with poker infused in it?
Check out this one entitled "The Card Counter", a 2021 American crime drama film written and directed by Paul Schrader. Martin Scorsese serves as an executive producer. The film is starred by Oscar Isaac, Tiffany Haddish, Tye Sheridan and Willem Dafoe.
Introduction William Tell is a gambler who developed a skill on counting cards during his eight-year stay in military prison. As his main objective is to avoid getting attention upon himself - whether it's fame or casino bouncers - Tell's gambling philosophy is to bet small and win modestly. Even though he gambles almost every day, he never checks in a casino hotel. Instead, he lives out of two small suitcases and stays in motels, where he takes off any décor and covers all the furniture in plain sheets fastened with twine.
A Quick Glimpse At a casino, Tell encounters an acquaintance from the gambling world, La Linda. She runs what's called a stable, a group of investors who back gamblers in exchange for a portion of their winnings. She offers to stake William but he declined, unwilling to be weighed down by the responsibility.
William meets a young man named Cirk Baufort. Viewers then learn more about the two, and in the end William offers to take Cirk along as he gambles in an attempt to help the young man avoid a violent life.
Next, William informs La Linda that he is interested in making a deal, in which he wants to go on the World Series of Poker tour to win enough money and help Cirk pay off his debts and start a new life, after which William will finally retire.
Learn what the future holds for William and Cirk by watching the movie!
The Card Counter is released by Focus Features, with a short description on their official YouTube trailer: Redemption is the long game in Paul Schrader's THE CARD COUNTER. Told with Schrader's trademark cinematic intensity, the revenge thriller tells the story of an ex-military interrogator turned gambler haunted by the ghosts of his past decisions, and features riveting performances from stars Oscar Isaac, Tiffany Haddish, Tye Sheridan and Willem Dafoe.
The Card Counter was released on September 10, 2021.
Of course counting cards is not cheating, it is simply intelligence or skill. But the answer as to why it is considered cheating is easy: it is not business for the casino. They lose money to these people. If they didn't take it as a bad thing, everyone would want to count cards without problems. Any "skill" that takes money from a casino will always be seen as a bad thing (or at least they will look for a way to do so).
Yeah , that's why some casinos , I guess the less important or smaller ones , they exclude from their properties the players who win a lot in their business , in their casino . This is totally unfair , first to say '' come , play and win big !!!'' then sb comes , plays , wins hundreds of thousands or millions of $$$ , then you tell him GTF out of here , go somewhere else , ban him for life . I think this is a sad practice when it comes to players with big winning rate agains tthe ''house'' , at least in the less important casinos , they can accuse you for anything and exclude you from playing there , going to courts for this ?? No good ...
Posted by antonis321: Yeah , that's why some casinos , I guess the less important or smaller ones , they exclude from their properties the players who win a lot in their business , in their casino . This is totally unfair , first to say '' come , play and win big !!!'' then sb comes , plays , wins hundreds of thousands or millions of $$$ , then you tell him GTF out of here , go somewhere else , ban him for life . I think this is a sad practice when it comes to players with big winning rate agains tthe ''house'' , at least in the less important casinos , they can accuse you for anything and exclude you from playing there , going to courts for this ?? No good ...
I don't know if anyone saw the movie "Casino" with Robert De Niro. Pretty old today, but excellent. There he shows a casino manager, and how they make money, how they treat cheaters (although in the case they actually cheated) but also how they treat winners: They try to prevent them from leaving the casino and continuing to gamble and that form that the money returns to the casino (since by not leaving the casino, it is normal that you continue betting).
Undoubtedly a great movie, especially for all the cast and direction. I don't know if casinos actually work that way, but I wouldn't be surprised if they did. What is true is that they do not like to lose (difficult for them to do it anyway) and before actions like these (counting cards) they put a lot of obstacles, when for me, there is nothing wrong.
also great movies with casino theme are oceans 11 and 12,so we have lot of movies with casino theme and something that you can watch for hours!hope that we will have this kind of movies in next years also!
Posted by dule-vu: also great movies with casino theme are oceans 11 and 12,so we have lot of movies with casino theme and something that you can watch for hours!hope that we will have this kind of movies in next years also!
Yes, all those you mention are good movies and there are many more interesting ones. In any case, I cannot compare them with Casino, which is far above those you mention. That at least in my opinion, there is nothing written about taste. What is important is that movies from this branch continue to appear in the future
Posted by ligador37: Of course counting cards is not cheating, it is simply intelligence or skill. But the answer as to why it is considered cheating is easy: it is not business for the casino. They lose money to these people.
Technically they do not consider it cheating - it's just a method for players to lower the house's edge in certain situations which means on the long run the casino is going to lose money if they don't do anything against it. And just like any establishment set out to entertain people they could refuse to service anybody for any particular reason whatsoever - in this case for card counting - which they most certainly do. It's not really different from when certain night clubs or bars no longer give out drinks to drunk people.
this movies with de niro,clooney and others have soul and something different about las vegas and everything that is arround that city and gambling,so it they will make something like that in future will be great!also rain man is great movie and how you can use brian for gambling!
they may not "technically" view it as cheating (since it really isn't). But they treat you like a cheater. It is good that they reserve the right of admission, and I see it correct in the case that you mention someone who drinks a lot. But someone who counters cards should not be treated in the same way (simply because it does not harm or endanger other players, as if it could be the case of the alcoholic).
I saw this movie but it's not what i expected. It is more about certain events in the life of the main actor and another little things for two / three other characters. It says very little about poker and it doesn't matter too much. I expected more from this movie but it wasn't the case.
Posted by CALICUL: I saw this movie but it's not what i expected. It is more about certain events in the life of the main actor and another little things for two / three other characters. It says very little about poker and it doesn't matter too much. I expected more from this movie but it wasn't the case.
I have not seen it yet, so I can not comment, but if it is as you say, a pity. I hope to find a movie where poker is something main, since it has not been seen that for a long time. But by the trailer, and what you say, I can get to be disappointed. Anyway when I can, I'll look at her. Where did you see it?
Posted by dule-vu: hope that the they will make some new movie next year!
I think I have read that they are going to make a new movie with the poker games organized by Tobey Maguire, attended by other celebrities such as Di Caprio, Matt Damon, etc.
Posted by dule-vu: this would be great if they will do!
Yes, I suppose they will. Already a movie that I mentioned before deals with the same topic: Molly's game. But obviously in that movie there is only one version. I think that, if it happens, we will have a good movie to watch about poker. Maybe not so much about specific plays (for that we have the tournament stream), but about everything else and it can be interesting.
now in this cold days,when everything is different,I would like to watch some movie like this and to see something that I didnt watched,like ocean 11 and some older one's!I know that is now time for home alone and this xmas movies,but hope that they will make some new one about casino!
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