Wonderful character development!

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

Wow!!!! Saw this movie on cable and it was one of the best things ever. It's so bad that it's good, I couldn't stop watching. The plot is everywhere, they solve problems that shouldn't even be in the movie. The acting is like a bad made for TV movie. Even the camera angles were below that of a direct to VHS movie, yeah not even good enough to get a DVD release. It's classified as a drama by my cable channel but I was holding my sides laughing constantly.If you like poker at all or even have watched it on TV, I hope you check this movie out cause it will be one of the funniest things you'll watch in a while.

Someone obviously thought this was a good way to exploit the poker craze. I have given it a lot of consideration, and this may the worst film I have ever seen. There must have been panic in the editing room as they came to the realization that this was a huge stinker. Michael Madsen and Louis Gosset would be well served to pool their resources and have it pulled off the market. Why is it bad? The production quality is 1970's game show quality at best. The plot lines , both major and minor, bring to mind the kind of stuff you would usually find in soft core pornography. The soundtrack is made of the worst collection of B sides I've ever heard....It just goes on and on.

I never write reviews but this was that bad. It looked like a soft core Skinemax flick without the skin. This was one of the worst films I'd ever seen. It really doesn't even make any sense. The ending, especially. I mean, there aren't any card cameras at a 5-million dollar final table? What??? Poor Johnny Juanda and Eric Seidel make cameos, I hope they got paid reeeeeally well. This script must've been written on a napkin. Maybe this was a long commercial for Party Poker.com. And she has time to be in a large poker tournament AND in med school at the same time? There are so many stupid plot points in this film it might only be fun to watch if you make some kind of drinking game out of it.

I recommend this movie to anyone that enjoyed the movie of the week about the alcoholic mother or the secretly bulimic high school girl. I kept looking for the Lifetime logo on the bottom corner of the screen. I'm with the other guy that thinks all the other voters are crazy. I am almost positive that these people were part of the production and really hoped that IMDb readers would watch the movie. I watched this on The Movie Channel last night. There is no way this played in any theater. The only thing cheesier than this movie is the set (Hollywood Park Casino). This is Madsen's second bad poker movie, I believe. He was in Tilt as well on ESPN, I think. I welcome any comments to the contrary. Poker player? Med student? Who cares?