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Message: [QUOTE="F Paulsson, post: 351291, member: 6979"] Haulin' it back on topic! There [b]is[/b] a very basic (but important) poker lesson taught in this movie: You know how Matt Damon ("Mike"?) goes broke right in the beginning? Yeah, don't let that happen to you. [i]Don't enter a game where the stakes are too high for your bankroll.[/i] This is, as most (all, I hope!) here knows, one of the most fundamental pieces of advice for playing serious poker. Bad beats happen, bad streaks occur. Your bankroll has to afford it. Unfortunately, Rounders decides to portray it as not [i]stupid[/i] but as, first, a) bad luck that Damon's character lost all his money, and then b) he realizes that it wasn't bad luck, he just wasn't playing well that night. Neither of which is completely true. The mistake took place right before he sat down at the table, not several hours later. Jon Turturro (love him!) - Knish? - was the only real poker player in that movie that I spotted. [/QUOTE]