![]() ![]() But the next day his best friend Worm ( Edward Norton) gets out of prison, and of course he has to meet him at the prison gates, and of course that leads to a poker game that night, and to an escalating and dangerous series of problems. ![]() Jo has been trying to talk him into quitting poker, and he promises to reform. ![]() As the movie opens, he gathers his entire stake of $30,000 and loses it to Teddy KGB. Mike is a law student, living with fellow student Jo ( Gretchen Mol). And it shows brash, clean-cut young Mike McDermott (Damon) venturing into the world of cutthroats like Teddy KGB ( John Malkovich), the poker genius of the Russian-American mob. It takes place within the pro poker underground of New York and Atlantic City, where everybody knows the big games and the key players. And as a mediocre player who hits the poker room at the Mirage a couple of times a year and has read a fair share of books about the World Series of Poker, I enjoyed it. As a poker movie, it's knowledgeable and entertaining. ![]()
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