Movies are always indispensable spiritual food for anyone, we can easily find all the content about all areas of life in the film, not only that but those contents are also reproduced through different genres, which can be humorous, can be tragic, or can be macabre. Today, viewers tend to look for more realistic movies, which is why casino-themed movies have a special appeal. Players who love live casino and poker games will always be the most objective reviewers of the content as well as the performance of the actors in the movie from their real experience, and among hundreds of movies about the casino topic, poker movies are always appreciated. So which movies are they? Let’s find out in this article.
Lucky You
Lucky You is a movie about the poker game and is one of the successful films in depicting world-class poker tournaments, including WSOP. The film’s content revolves around the character Huck Cheever, he is a professional poker player and has quite a few achievements for himself. But Huck is a person who is not good at controlling his emotions, especially when he loses, he is easily caught up in the results of the bets and many times have to receive unnecessary losses. The development of the movie brings Huck to a beautiful singer and he falls in love with her, but in front of Huck there are still countless important poker competitions, more specifically, in these contests, he will have to confront his own biological father, whom he hates. The film recreates the dramatic and emotional poker matches realistically.
Molly’s Game
This is a movie based on a real character. She used to be a professional skier but due to a serious injury, Molly had to end her career at a very young age. She took part in a part-time job at nightclubs and casinos in Las Vegas, where her life officially changed. Molly began to realize the luxury of poker games, she got a lot of money by serving the elite at poker casinos. She realized that, if she could run a poker casino, she would quickly become rich. Molly has really done this, but wealth will come with many troubles. In order to stay awake to work for long hours, she got caught up in drugs and eventually lost everything when she was arrested by the FBI.
Rounders
The film tells the story of a student named Mike, he has a hobby of playing poker, and although many times he is prevented by his girlfriend, Mike still cannot give up this game. Mike is drawn by his bad friend Worm to underground poker clubs to help Worm pay off his huge debt. The film recreates a harsh reality, that just because of his passion for poker, Mike was broken up by his girlfriend and no longer friends with Worm. Finally, he challenged the boss in the poker world and won. From then on, Mike officially played professional poker and participated in major international tournaments.
Movies with poker content always have their own colors, but they all faithfully recreate the reality of the lives of people who love poker, thereby showing viewers valuable lessons of life.