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Rounders (1998) - 9 corrections

starring Edward Norton, Famke Janssen, John Malkovich, John Turturro, Martin Landau, Matt Damon (add more)

Genres: Crime, Drama

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The story Mike tells, of out playing Johnny Chan makes no sense if you do the math on all the raises. He sits down at a $300-$600 no limit table with $6,000, plays for an hour, and "folds mostly". Johnny opens for a raise, standard raise 3X the Big Blind ($1800). He re-raises, a good re-raise would be around $6,000, effectively putting him all-in. The story continues with Johnny re-raising ($20,000 or so), and finally Mike re-raising one last time, with an I.O.U. I assume. Johnny then folds. [It's a 300/600 limit game. With blinds of 100/300, Johnny's first raise would be to 600 (which is seen when he throws out 6 black chips), Mike' raise would be to 900, Johnny's second raise would be to 1200 (which is seen when he throws out another 6 black chips), and finally Mike's raise would be to 1800.]

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When KGB and Mike are playing heads up in the end of the film and Mike is dealing the cards he first deals the "turn card" i.e. the fourth community card and then deals the "river", fifth community card, without discarding one card. In Texas Hold 'em you always take the top card away when dealing the community cards because cards can be marked and by doing so no-one will know which cards are coming even if some of them are marked. [That is not correct. You only see them play four hands in total, the rest are just implied by their stacks changing size, and only once is Mike shown to be dealing. When he does, the camera comes on him just as he deals the turn card (so you can not tell if he discarded one before this), and a little while later you can see him discard one card before dealing the river.]

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In the final showdown with Mike & KGB, Mike goes to the poker showdown with $10,000. In the first game, he beats KGB in a winner take all and doubles up. If that is the case, Mike would now have $20,000. Mike gets ready to leave, but KGB goads him into playing another game for double or nothing. Mike again beats KGB to double up to $40,000. However, Mike states his winnings to be $60,000 with the breakdown of his winnings as follows: $15,000 back to KGB and Gramma, $10,000 back to the law professor and $6,000 back to the Chesterfield. This totals $31,000 which would leave only $9,000 left. Where did the other $20,000 come from? This amount is never accounted for in the movie in the final showdown with KGB. [It was not mentioned how much KGB started the second game with, it could have been 40,000. Most likely though, KGB started with 20,000 and lost it, then brought another 20,000 into the game. Remember Mike said KGB could "reload at anytime".]

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