Details

Release year: 2007

Storyline

A hotshot poker player tries to win a tournament in Vegas, but is fighting a losing battle with his personal problems.

Top credits

Directors

Curtis Hanson

Writers

Cast

Eric Bana — Huck Cheever
Drew Barrymore — Billie Offer
Robert Duvall — L. C. Cheever
Phyllis Somerville — Pawnbroker

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Did you know

• The woman who plays against Huck Cheever (Eric Bana) for the spot on the World Series of Poker Tournament is Jennifer Harman, a real-life professional poker player, and the only woman to hold two bracelets in World Series Of Poker open events.

• The "Golf Marathon" wager is based on a real-life proposition bet involving professional poker player Huck Seed. Seed won the bet.

• Although the film takes place during a fictitious World Series of Poker Tournament in 2003. Some of the events depicted and referenced in the movie's tournament are remarkably close to real-life. In 2003, the World Series of Poker's Main Event had eight hundred thirty-nine players, like in the movie. It was eventually won by an amateur playing in his first live tournament, who qualified online, Chris Moneymaker in real-life, Jason Keyes (Evan Jones) in the film. The eventual winner would go on to defeat veteran pro poker player to win the tournament, Sam Farha in real-life, L.C. Cheever (Robert Duvall) in the film. The tournament's winner would go on to win the top prize of two and a half million dollars. Farha's line, "This guy over there, he never played a live tournament in his life, and he beat me. I don't know if this makes me feel better or worse." could be a reference to his actual loss to Moneymaker, as well. Even the bobble-head tiger toy, seen at the final table in the film, was at the final table of the real 2003 World Series of Poker.