
‘Rounders’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey
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The Slow Burn of Poker
When I saw it, I just didn't know a lot about poker. And on top of that, there hadn't been a lot of poker stuff in movies and TV. The Cincinnati Kid is kind of one of the great poker movies of all time. But every hand in that movie is absurd. It's like, I've got four Kings and then another guy's like,I've got four Aces. Right? So this movie was one of the first times, especially the more he got into the game, you felt like even though some of it is fantastical and ridiculous,. There was real attention to the specificity of the game and what it could actually be like to be in a
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