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Poker movies have had their share of “bad beats” in recent years. While most of the best poker movies mentioned in my previous article took place before the “poker boom”, those that came after showed how Hollywood can jump on a fad – and stomp it nearly to death.

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Here are my top 5 worst poker movies ever made:

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#5: All-In (2006)

When a poker movie has a main character with the nickname “Ace”, that’s a bad sign. When the script sticks that lame moniker on the lovely and talented Dominique Swain, that’s a crime against humanity. Swain plays a medical student who uses the poker skills she learned as a child to pay for medical school and to help her father (Michael Madsen) out of his gambling debts.

#4 Casino Royale (2006)

This 2006 James Bond film (the first with Daniel Craig as Agent 007) has been panned as the worst in the forty-year history of the franchise. For a government agent with expertise in extracting secrets, Bond is so incompetent at poker that he can’t notice a false tell when he sees one.

The difference between the ridiculous final hand here and the one in “Maverick” is that the “Maverick” hand is played for laughs, while the “Casino Royale” finale just looks like a Hollywood writer’s idea of how poker should look.

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#3: The Grand (2007)

This clusterbomb had lots of stars (Woody Harrelson, Cheryl Hines, Ray Romano, Dennis Farina), lots of poker action (including commentary from poker author Phil Gordon) and several identifiable characters (David Cross as a proto-Hellmuth, Hines as Annie Duke-lite). Only one thing separated this movie from being a classic poker comedy: a script.

Zak Penn (“X-Men: The Last Stand”, “The Last Action Hero”) directed this atrocity and encouraged the actors to improvise, only giving them brief notes on the characters. The lack of story and cohesion throughout the film shows, as the final product of this bold experiment turns into one big mess.

#2: Lucky You (2007)

Combine a leading man with zero charisma (Eric Bana) with a romantic comedy veteran (Drew Barrymore), mix in a crusty father figure (Robert Duvall), then set the whole thing around the World Series of Poker. What do you have? “Lucky You”, a hot mess of a movie. Even Barrymore’s eternal charm and optimism can’t save this trainwreck. Bad poker, bad acting and bad writing make this one baaaaad movie.

#1: Deal (2008)

“Deal” was the first major movie to feature the World Poker Tour. With its dismal box office numbers and horrible reviews, it also may be the last. The movie had a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 3%, making it the “Ishtar” of poker movies.

Even in a cutthroat world like pro poker, none of these characters is remotely likeable. The ex-pro (Burt Reynolds) uses the young hotshot (Alex Stillman) as a surrogate for his own means. The hotshot is an obnoxious brat and his new girlfriend (Shannon Elizabeth) turns out to be a (SPOILER ALERT!!!) call girl.

Closest casino to clarksville tn. Which poker movies are in your Netflix queue? Which ones sit on your DVD shelf, and which ones deserve a seat of dishonor in a roaring fireplace?

By Gerald Hanks

Gerald Hanks is from Houston Texas, and has been playing poker since 2002. He has played cash games and no-limit hold’em tournaments at live venues all over the United States.

LOL, fun stuff, Gerald!
I saw “The Grand” and “Lucky You,” both terrible, although “Lucky You” was marginally better.
And you’re right, the poker in “Casino Royale” is just ridiculous.
I’ve actually written a poker screenplay, sort of a sequel to “The Cincinnati Kid”, featuring Eric Stoner’s grandson as the main character. The working title was “The New Cincinnati Kid”, but I’ve since changed it to “Runner Runner”.
I think it’s a great script, but it probably won’t break through on its own… lol, I think I’ll have to get something else optioned first, before anyone will take a look at that one. But maybe one day we’ll see it on the silver screen!

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One of the deadliest combinations you will stumble across in the poker world is when a talented player is riding on the crest of a wave of positive variance. When the world’s elite players go on a so-called heater, there is little anyone can do except sit back and watch them rake in pot after pot and add a few zeros to the end of their bank balances.

Dozens of high-profile players have enjoyed the experience of seemingly being able to do nothing wrong at the poker tables and it is something that will continue to happen as long as poker is played. There is no doubt that some of of these hot-running spells have been missed in this article, but here are some of my favorite live poker heaters from the modern game.

Dan Colman: $22,389,481 won during 2014

As someone who used to enjoy playing heads up sit & go tournament online, I was already aware of the name Dan Colman because, playing as “mrge33n13,” he was a regular crusher at the highest stakes in one-on-one games. After several cashes in major live tournaments, Colman burst onto the live poker scene in 2014 when he swept the floor with opponents in the majority of events that he entered.

A 27th-place finish in a $25,500 High Roller event at the 2014 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure bagged Colman $59,300. While impressive, it was not exactly a result to write home about.

The same can’t be said of Colman’s next cash, which was an outright victory in the €100,000 Super High Roller at the European Poker Tour Grand Final that bagged him a massive €1,539,300.

Colman, who calls Massachusetts home, reached the final table of a €10,300 buy in turbo event while in Monte Carlo before jetting off to Las Vegas for the 2014 World Series of Poker where he finished third in a $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em Heads-Up event for $111,942 before securing a life-changing $15,306,668 by winning the $1,000,000 Big One for One Drop.

The heater continued throughout 2014 with Colman helping himself to four scores of $800,000 or more, including two results worth more than a million dollars.

Although the number of tournaments Colman entered in 2015 was less than his golden year, he still managed to win $1,854,121 in 2015, $1,301,756 in 2016 and has already won $1,923,946 in the first few months of 2017.

Dan Colman’s amazing 2014:

Date	Tournament	Place	Prize (local currency)	Prize (USD equivalent)
Jan. 11	$25,500 NL Hold’em High Roller	27th	$59,300
April 24	€100,000 NL Hold’em Super High Roller	1st	€1,539,300	$2,127,398
May 2	€10,300 NL Hold’em 6-Max Turbo	5th	€49,400	$68,526
June 19	$10,000 NL Hold’em heads-Up	3rd	$111,942
June 25	$5,000 NL Hold’em	19th	$22,309
June 29	$1m Big One for One Drop	1st	$15,306,668
July 10	$100,000 NL Hold’em Super High Roller	3rd	$796,821
Aug. 18	€50,000 Super High Roller	2nd	€843,066	$1,118,479
Aug. 28	£60,000 WPT Alpha8 London	1st	£600,000	$957,396
Nov. 1	HK$500,000 Super High Roller	7th	HK$2,900,000	$373,932

Fedor Holz: $16,484,153 won during 2016

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