Matt Lombardo

3rd Jun 2003

Rounders (1998)

Corrected entry: After Mike is taken for every penny, Judge Petrovisky writes him a personal check for $10,000, which he then takes to a check cashier. These businesses take between 2.5 to 5 percent for cashing a personal check, yet he is able to show up at KGB's club with the full ten thousand.

Correction: In a deleted scene the judge calls the money cashing place and he knows the owner, they know Mike is coming...and agreed not to charge him. Of course. You're right as the movie played out, they should have shown the judge calling the place.

Matt Lombardo

Correction: After Mike says "They took every f*cking nickel," Worm says "I think I got $300 in my boot somewhere", which accounts for the 2-2.5 percent acquisition fee from the cashier station.

No, that money never leaves Worm's possession. He never gives it to Mike. The movie makes a point of mentioning that Worm has that money so the audience doesn't think Mike is taking the car and ditching Worm and leaving him with absolutely nothing.

No. Mike never takes that money from Worm and the deleted scene already accounts for the fee not being charged to Mike.

Matt Lombardo

2nd Jun 2004

Rounders (1998)

Corrected entry: There are several instances of improper poker playing in this movie. 1. When KGB is going to bet 15,000 into Mike early on, he puts one stack of chips out, then reaches for more and announces his bet. This is called a string bet, going back for more without FIRST announcing how much you are putting in. KGB's bet should have only been his first stack. 2. In one of the home games while Mike is trying to win back money, a man says, "I call your 1,500, and bet all-in" or something. He should have said, "I see your 1,500..." By saying "call" he is calling, and therefore can't put any more money in the pot. 3. There are several players who "splash the pot." Putting chips right into the middle, instead of a little in front of you until the betting round is over.

Coconut

Correction: Mike tells KGB to stop splashing the pot, and Teddy says that in his club he will splash the pot if he wants to. Not really a trivia, since they acknowledge it.

Correction: String bet nonsense. Maybe at a full table but playing head up Mike wouldn't call him for that. Teddy wasn't playing games trying to get a read off him, there was no action, and no-one to ref the game.

Matt Lombardo

7th Jul 2009

Rounders (1998)

Corrected entry: 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."

BLAngel

Correction: Once you're down to heads up in a limit game, the bets are no limit. I still don't see how Mike came away with 30k unless there was 10k in the pot before they got heads up. And if Mike wasn't raising more than than 1200 there's no way on God's green earth Chan would fold with 30k in the pot. He'd call to see Mike's hand at the least.

Matt Lombardo

When down to heads-up in Limit hold'em, raises are uncapped, but they still follow the limit structure. And I don't know where you think it's implied he took $30,000 off that table. Is it because that's his roll at the start of the movie? Mike tells Knish he had $6000, that's what he had on him when he went to the casino. He didn't have his entire roll with him.

Correction: 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's 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 1500.

I wrote my initial from memory, I just went back and looked at the scene again. The action starts on the flop. The whole movie is about No-Limit. It would make even less sense for him to sit down at a limit table. The first bet Johnny makes is a raise of Mikes initial bet, Mike re-raises, Johnny 4 bets, Mike 5 bets, Johnny folds. In Limit action stops at 4 bet.

BLAngel

The whole movie is not no limit hold'em, it's only the games at KGB's place. Almost every other poker game depicted in the entire movie is Stud. This is factually accurate because this movie took place pre-poker boom, and Stud was still the predominant game on the East Coast. Moreover, No limit Hold'em was rarely spread in casinos outside of major tournaments. The game Mike sat in with Chan was most certainly Limit Hold'em.

Incorrect. When you're down to 2 players only in a hand in a limit game, rules state the game is essentially no limit at that point and there in no cap on the bets.

Matt Lombardo

2nd Dec 2004

Rounders (1998)

Corrected entry: In the second to last scene of the movie where Mike is playing heads-up with Teddy KGB, there is an inconsistency in the bets that are made. Previously in the movie, the black chips are shown to be worth $100 each. When Mike raises $1000 straight, he places 20 chips down, a total of $2000.

Correction: Yea he calls the 1k and raises 1k...2k.

Matt Lombardo

26th Feb 2015

Rounders (1998)

Factual error: After Mike sets Worm up at the club and leaves, Worm asks for $2,000 of debt in Mike's name to sit at what was moments before identified as a $20/$40 limit game. The woman is next seen putting four rows of green $25 chips into a chip rack. A $20/$40 game would never be played with $25 chips because this denomination makes it very difficult or impossible to bet the required amount, at least without $5 chips to make change on every bet, which would be extremely tedious. Rather, $20/$40 games are played with $20 chips made specifically for games of those stakes, and they are usually yellow in color.

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Suggested correction: Maybe they don't have any of those left. In that case he could play with those.

Matt Lombardo

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