John Malkovich Poker
New York City law student and gifted poker player Mike McDermott dreams of winning the World Series of Poker.At an underground Texas hold 'em game run by Russian mobster Teddy 'KGB' (John Malkovich), an overconfident Mike loses his entire $30,000 bankroll in a single hand.
- Matt Damon, John Malkovich, and Edward Norton starred in a movie that tackles loyalty, friendship, and self-confidence while being packed with the highest possible level of poker adrenaline at the.
- Rounders, the 1998 cult classic that helped increase the popularity of poker in the early 2000s, made a return to the news this week. Could momentum again be building for a sequel?
- Poker is one of the most popular games in the casino industry. Every brick and mortar casino has a poker table. Even online games have variations of poker. Among online blackjack games, slots, roulette etc. Poker is voted as the most played game of all. The rules of the game are simple and easy to follow. It is also easy to play.
- The poker themed release, starring Matt Damon, Ed Norton and John Malkovich, has an almost cult following, and is seen as the best poker movie of all time. Obsessed Adam Savage freely admits he is obsessed with the movie and has always wanted a set of these chips for himself.
John Malkovich Poker Film
Year 1998
Director John Dahl
Genre Drama, Crime
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“Get your money in when you have the best of it. Protect it when you don't.”
Matt Damon - Mike McDermott“I've often seen these people, these squares at the table, short stack and long odds against them. All their outs gone. One last card in the deck that can help them. I used to wonder how they could let themselves get into such bad shape, and how the hell they thought they could turn it around.”
Matt Damon - Mike McDermott“Mike, I learned it from you. You always told me this was the rule. Rule number one: Throw away your cards the moment you know they can't win. Fold the fucking hand.” - Jo
“That's the safe play. I told Worm you can't lose what you don't put in the middle. But you can't win much either.”
Matt Damon - Mike McDermott“- Worm: What did I ever do to that guy?
- Mike McDermott: You fucked his mother.
- Worm: [amused] Yeah but she was a good looking older woman you gotta give me that.”
Edward Norton - Worm
Matt Damon - Mike McDermott“We can't run from who we are, our destiny chooses us.”
Martin Landau - Abe Petrovsky“Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker. Guys around here will tell ya, you play for a living, it's like any other job. You don't gamble, you grind it out. Your goal is to win one big bet an hour, that's it.”
Matt Damon - Mike McDermott“- Moogie: Hey, lemme ask you a question. In the legalsense, can fuckin' Steinbrenner move the Yankees? Does he have the fuckin' right to just move them?
- Mike McDermott: How should I know that?
- Moogie: You didn't learn that yet?
- Mike McDermott: No, we get to Steinbrenner in third year law school.
- Moogie: Oh...”
- Moogie
Matt Damon - Mike McDermott“- Mike McDermott: I watch the cards but I also watch the player react to the cards. That's how I knew the DA made his two pair and judge Kaplan missed the flush, I was watching their eyes when they checked their river cards, their faces tell you everything.
- Abe Petrovsky: [confused] You watch the man? I never knew you had to calculate so much...” (continue)(continue reading)Matt Damon - Mike McDermott
Martin Landau - Abe Petrovsky- Worm: You know what always cheers me up, when I'm feeling shitty?
- Mike McDermott: No, what's that?
- Worm: Rolled up aces over kings. Check-raising stupid tourists and taking huge pots off of them. Playing all-night high-limit Hold'em at the Taj, 'where the sand turns to gold'. Stacks and towers of checks I can't even see over.Edward Norton - Worm
Matt Damon - Mike McDermottIn 'Confessions of a Winning Poker Player', Jack King said, 'Few players recall big pots they have won, strange as it seems, but every player can remember with remarkable accuracy the outstanding tough beats of his career'. It seems true to me, cause walking in here, I can hardly remember how I built my bankroll, but I can't stop thinking of how... (continue)(continue reading)
Matt Damon - Mike McDermott“- Worm: She's really got him by the balls.
- Petra: That's not so bad, is it?
- Worm: It depends on the grip!”Edward Norton - Worm
Famke Janssen - Petra“Why do you think the same five guys make it to the final table of the World Series of Poker every year? What, are they the luckiest guys in Las Vegas? It's a skill game Jo.”Matt Damon - Mike McDermott
“- Worm: I guess the sayings' true. In the poker game of life, women are the rake man. They are the fuckin' rake.
- Mike McDermott: What the fuck are you talkin' about. What saying?
- Worm: I don't know. There ought to be one though.”
Edward Norton - Worm
Matt Damon - Mike McDermott“First prize at the World Series of Poker is a million bucks. Does it have my name on it? I don't know. But, I'm gonna find out.”
Matt Damon - Mike McDermott“- Mike McDermott: What happened?
- Worm: Nothing, she closed her legs too fast!”Matt Damon - Mike McDermott
Edward Norton - Worm
ESPN is often given credit for the ‘Poker Boom’ of the mid-2000s but for all intents and purposes it was the movie Rounders starring Matt Damon, Edward Norton, and John Malkovich that set that poker boom into motion. I’m assuming that 99% of you bros have seen the movie but for those of you that haven’t I’ll give you the extreme Spark’s Notes: Matt Damon plays a gifted law school student who is a brilliant amateur poker player but makes some bad decisions and hits rock bottom.
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For most of America, that movie was the first look at the now defunct back-alley poker rooms of NYC. Those poker rooms were a vestige of the ‘Old New York’ that all but died after Rudy Giuliani’s reign as mayor and were totally stamped out under El Bloombito (Michael Bloomberg). This story from Matt Damon’s not about those poker rooms, though he does touch on those briefly, it’s about John Malkovich as an actor and Matt claims what Malkovich said to him that day was one of the all-time great moments on a movie set…and this is coming from a guy who has filmed with nearly every great actor in the world.
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