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this for a living, man.

You think so?

Nice playing in there.

Hey, thanks, man,

I appreciate it.

What do you think, Tommy?

I think he could've

done a lot better.

Talking about me?

Well, if I saw you bluffing,

then everybody at your

table saw you bluffing.

What are you talking about?

I flopped a set.

You missed your flush.

Maybe you should

get your eyes checked.

Maybe I should.

Listen, you know, you got a

hell of a lot of potential,

so if you ever want to sit down

and talk about cards sometime...

Hey, hey... All right,

look, I think he's okay.

You could do a whole lot worse.

Hey, all right, all right.

Tommy Vinson.

What's that dude

talking about, man?

I don't know, maybe he's

drunk or something.

Did you really flop a set?

No, I missed my flush.

Oh, I had a feeling

you'd show up.

What? No, no.

I'm just here to

play cards, man.

No, just give me five minutes.

See the guy over there

with the red hat?

What about him?

What kind of hand do

you think he's got?

Good? Bad?

Good.

Wrong. Okay.

He's got a bad hand.

You know how I know?

How do you know?

When he has a bad hand, he lightly

scratches his face, like this.

He's done it every time.

It's a tell. Watch.

Well, didn't it rain

my children

Like that.

Didn't it didn't it didn't it

Oh, lucky guess.

Okay.

Pick someone,

anybody at the table.

How about this guy right here?

Didn't it rain

I say he's got a good hand.

Ace, king, maybe?

No. Ace, queen.

Damn. You should

be playing these guys.

I don't play anymore.

Hey, can you give me

that napkin, please?

It's a nice accent.

What is that, German?

No, it's Russian.

Oh.

You must drink a lot of vodka.

(WOMAN SCOFFING)

Boy, I hope you're better with

cards than you are with women.

Believe me, I am.

You know, I won $22,000 in

the Poker Stars Tournament.

Razor.

She just... Oh, man.

Cut you to ribbons.

You saw that?

Yeah.

Come on, man, I had bad cards.

It's not the cards.

You don't play the cards.

You play the player.

What do you have in mind?

Million-dollar payouts.

I'll cover the buy-ins and we'll

split 50-50, right down the middle.

What's the catch?

No catch. You just gotta win.

And you gotta listen to me.

Every word.

Why should I do that?

Because by the time you're

25, you'll be set for life.

Are you set for life?

I could've been if I'd had

someone to listen to.

(KNOCKING AT DOOR)

Hey. ALEX:
Hey.

You found it, huh? Yeah.

Nice place. Right.

(CHUCKLING NERVOUSLY)

Would you like

something cold to drink?

You want a Coke,

soft drink, a beer?

Beer, yeah, I'll take a beer.

Okay.

(CHUCKLING)

Is this you?

Yeah, can you believe it?

'79 Reno Poker Final.

What's this?

(CHUCKLING) Oh...

My wife set that up there.

That's the hand I had

when I beat Doyle Brunson.

ALEX:
Oh, my God.

You beat Doyle Brunson

in the World Championships?

Well, they didn't call it World

Championships then, but...

Sh*t!

Yeah, it was just

called the game.

Now it's, you know,

multi-million dollar pots

and diamond bracelets.

So you never won

a championship, then?

I...

I was in the top ten.

I was doing great.

For five years,

I was kicking ass.

And then I...

I lost my confidence, you know,

and losing a lot of games...

I started borrowing

a lot of money

from my friends, family.

Kept on playing.

Then I hit the wall.

I mean, I hit...

I lost everything.

I almost lost my wife.

She told me if I quit,

she'd stay.

So...

I quit. I haven't...

I haven't played a game

of cards in 20 years.

Twenty years? You haven't

played poker in 20 years?

Not even a home game.

Oh, my God.

Do you miss it?

Not as much as I'd miss her.

Look, man, if I... You know,

if we're gonna do this

thing, I don't know...

Should we sign something or...

What do you say

we just trust each other?

All right.

All right.

ANNOUNCER:

Second hand underway...

ALEX:
Are you sure your wife's

not gonna come home and kill us?

TOMMY:
Don't worry, she won't

be home until tomorrow night.

Focus. Gus Hansen,

what's he doing?

I don't know.

He's betting too quick?

He keeps checking his cards.

He knows what he's holding.

Believe me, these guys know

exactly what they got.

It's a false tell.

All right. I think I got it.

Let's go try it out. We've

been doing this for days.

Come on, we've been

through 100 tapes.

You think you're ready?

Tommy, please.

Come on, you want

me to be the student,

let me learn the way I do best.

Commerce Casino's

just 20 minutes away.

If we're gonna do this,

let's do it right.

(MONEY HONEY PLAYING)

BARRY:
Are you calling that?

Oh, man.

BARRY:
Well, look who it is.

Gosh. Hey, long time.

How you doing, Barry?

Is that your kid?

That's my kid.

BARRY:
Well, have a seat.

All right.

Yo, son, you sure

you can handle this?

We'll see.

DIAMOND:
The raise.

PLAYER 1:
Call.

DIAMOND:
Five hundred.

PLAYER 2:
Nah. I'm folding.

PLAYER 1:
Up five. ALEX: Fold.

DIAMOND:
I'm good.

PLAYER 1:
All right, I call.

BARRY:
There we go.

He's up 38?

PLAYER 1:
All in.

I'm all in.

DIAMOND:
I fold.

A little different than playing

on the Internet, huh, son?

DIAMOND:
I'll take you down, yo.

What do you say we

take a little break?

Look, I just got bad cards.

I'll be fine.

Come on, Tommy, let ATM stay.

BARRY:
Yeah.

Come on.

DEALER:
All right, bet's to you.

BARRY:
Yeah, all right.

You're biting your lower lip.

What? What are you

talking about?

Every time you get a bad hand,

you bite your lower lip.

No, I don't.

Oh, sh*t, let's get out of here.

Wait.

Come on, give me one more second.

Look, if I see it,

everybody at the table sees it.

Look, you brought me here to learn.

Just give me one more chance.

Here you come draggin' in

Three a.m. again

Grinnin' that silly grin

Smellin' just like sin

Holdin' up that alibi

I'm all in.

Diggin' down deeper and deeper

In that hole you're already in

If you can't lie no better

If you can't lie no better

Hey, ATM, what do you think

I ought to buy next?

A BMW?

Or a Benzo?

I like Beemers, myself.

BARRY:
Look,

the kid made a straight,

(CHUCKLING)

I did pretty good, right?

Yeah, you did good.

Then I did good?

You didn't like the lip?

These guys got long memories.

Next time you play them, you're gonna

have to change it up a little bit.

When was the last time

you got laid?

What? When was your last time?

I'm doing fine in that

department, thank you.

Oh, okay.

Why do you care, anyway?

Well, young guy, testosterone

popping out of every pore.

It seems like you would be

taking a run at everything.

I want you to be happy,

you know.

I don't know, I just...

For whatever reason, I'm

kind of awkward with girls.

I just wish they'd come up to me.

It'd be a whole lot easier.

You know, some of these skills

you're learning at the table,

you know, people skills,

watching, observing, listening,

it'll come in handy for you if you

just apply them in other areas.

Like that tall drink

of water over there.

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