Rounders (Collector's Edition) (1998)

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Tagline: You've got to play the hand you're dealt.

Plot Outline: A young man (Matt Damon) is a reformed gambler who must return to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks.

Plot Synopsis: A law school student (Matt Damon) loses his tuition money and everything else he has saved in a high stakes poker game. Learning his lesson (he thinks), he vows to his girl friend (Mol Gretchen) to give up playing forever. That lasts until his best friend (Edward Norton), a notorious card sharp, is released from prison and drags him back into the circuit to pay debts he has incurred to a Russian mobster (John Malkovich). John Turturro also appears as a career poker player and Martin Landau plays a law professor who understands his student's need to be something other than what is dictated to him.

High Roller - The Stu Ungar Story (2003)

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Tagline: Gambler. Addict. Loser. Legend.

Plot Outline: Based on the true story of the rise and fall of poker legend Stu "The Kid" Ungar.

The Cincinnati Kid (1965)

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Tagline: HIGH FURY AND GNAWING FEAR!!

Plot Outline: An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.

Plot Synopsis: In New Orleans, an up-and-coming poker player takes on a long-time master of the game. Not only is there a small fortune at stake, but also the status of being the top player. But the trusted dealer has been blackmailed into rigging the game.

Shade (2003)

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Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Jamie Foxx, Melanie Griffith & Gabriel Byrne.

Price: $9.98

Tagline: Look Deeper.

Plot Synopsis: Shade is set in the world of poker hustlers working the clubs and martini bars of Los Angeles. The tale unfolds as a group of hustlers encounter "The Dean" and pull off a successful sting that results in their pursuit by a vengeful gangster.

Maverick (1994)

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Tagline: The greatest gambler in the West has finally met his match.

Plot Outline: Bret Maverick, needing money for a poker tournament, faces various comic mishaps and challenges, including a charming woman thief.

Plot Synopsis: Maverick is recreated from the character James Garner created in the 1950s TV program. Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them. He needs an additional three thousand dollars in order to enter a Winner Take All poker game that begins in a few days. He tries to win some, tries to collect a few debts, and recover a little loot for the reward, all with a lighthearted air. He joins forces with a woman gambler with a marvelous, though fake, southern accent as the two both try and enter the game.

Owning Mahowny (2003)

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This is not a movie about Poker, but it can definately teach you a few lessons than will improve your Poker Carreer.

Tagline: To some it's a game. To others it's a habit. But to Dan Mahowny -- beating the odds is everything.

Plot Outline: A bank manager (Hoffman) with: (a) a gambling problem and (b) access to a multi-million dollar account gets into a messy situation. Based on the story of the largest one-man bank fraud in Canadian history.

Plot Synopsis: Dan Mahowny was a rising star at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. At twenty-four he was assistant manager of a major branch in the heart of Toronto's financial district. To his colleagues he was a workaholic. To his customers, he was astute, decisive and helpful. To his friends, he was a quiet, but humorous man who enjoyed watching sports on television. To his girlfriend, he was shy but engaging. None of them knew the other side of Dan Mahowny--the side that executed the largest single-handed bank fraud in Canadian history, grossing over $10 million in eighteen months to feed his gambling obsession.