Underground Poker Documentary
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Inside: Underground Poker. Author: Jon Bulette. Country: the United States. The cable network presents three straight hours of poker documentaries. And ’Underground Poker,’ featuring Phil Laak. The documentary argues just the opposite and warns of the risks that. Now Place Your Bets. Now Place Your Bets is a 2017 documentary from the mind of James.
*Inside Underground Poker
*Underground Poker Nyc
*New York Underground Poker Documentary
*Underground Gambling Documentary
*Underground Poker Club
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There’s that old song about gambling that talks about how, sometimes, you just gotta know when hold ‘em. And fold ‘em. Then something about walking away and running or some other gambling stuff. In any event, Toronto filmmaker Matt Gallagher has learned the lessons of the sage-like gambling man. With Grinders, Gallagher delved into the world of barely underground poker (and in Toronto, no less). And after a bit of convincing, he brought a camera along.Following his own mission to make money to provide for his family, as well as the varied quests of several other stealthy card sharps peopling Hogtown’s hush-hush gambling establishments, Grinders is a lively profile of a trade plied just under the radar. With high-stakes poker games being broadcast in lieu of real sports all over ESPN, the high roller lifestyle is constantly propagated by the countless rags-to-riches stories of everyday shmoes who have worked their way up the ladder. And we’ve seen a lot about players at the top—the big winners whose power plays and all-in gambits have helped the excitement of poker spread to a mass audience. But it’s rare that we get a sense of the ladder itself.
We talked with Gallagher over the phone about the film, poker, and gaining access to Toronto’s not-so shadowy poker circuit. Also, in one of those classic egg-on-our-faces moments, he read our review of Grinders before the interview, and called us on a comment he took umbrage with. In the interest of transparency, and because rarely do we get a chance to defend ourselves, we left that bit in.Torontoist: So we already did a review of the film. This will be more of, like a profile or Q&A.Matt Gallagher: Well it’s rare that I get to talk to the critic the day after the review.Well I apologize, if anything. Maybe at major dailies they enjoy enough of a division of labour between reviewers and profile-writers that they don’t get in this mess. No it was a great review. The only thing that was like a stab in my heart was the line about “amateurish.” Like what part is amateurish?Oh man, now I have to defend myself.[Laughs] Well this is a rare treat for me!Well it’s a rare…whatever the opposite of treat is for me! [Laughs] But I guess the thing I didn’t really like was how it’s a movie about poker and a movie about gambling and a movie about your family, and I felt that some of the connections between them were…well, that you were threading the needle a little too deliberately. If that makes sense.Well for me when I’m doing these films, you’re always looking for themes that transcend the area of your subject. I’m pretty cognizant of the fact that maybe 5 per cent or 2 per cent of people out there are going to care about a movie about poker. It might as well be Scrabble players or something like that. But I’m looking for those themes that make it more universal.The ol’ pocket Queen/Jack. Or as the pros call it: the ooooooool’ pocket Queen/Jack.
Well that’s great because, in a lot of ways, Hot Docs is such a general interest film festival. Like there’s the “Poker Movie” and the “Guantanamo Movie” and the “Signing Chimp” movie.Documentaries are still in this stage of identifying their genre. And a lot of people watch documentaries for different reasons. Some people watch it for issues, some people watch them for character portraits or something like that. It’s always a struggle. Because some people may come to this film expecting a real exposé into the underground world of illegal poker. And that would be a good film, too. But it’s not a film I wanted to make.Well the thing is that poker seems to be huge. Like it’s not pro Scrabble players or daredevils. There seems to be an audience for a film about it.Well poker has exploded, for sure. But most people I talk to outside of the people I play with are lukewarm about the idea of watching a whole film about poker.It’s one of the interesting things about Grinders too, is that you kind of expect it to be this look behind the curtain into the shady world of underground poker. But it’s so soft boiled.These are guys who are working, right? Like the guys who are making a living at it, going out there every day, they’re not drinking at the table. It’s not the vision of poker you have in the movies where there are lots of cigars and scotch. Most of the illegal clubs I play in don’t serve alcohol. You can’t even bring alcohol in. These guys take their poker really seriously. And some of the games are in, like, the basement of a dentist’s office, and he has a lot of rich friends and they come over and play. It’s varied between warehouses and strip malls and backrooms in Chinatown and Greek social clubs, and these little places all over the city.So how did you go about gaining access to this world? A lot of people play cards for fun. But how do you move from that into, one, finding out that these places exist, and two, convincing them to let you bring a film crew inside these clubs?I’ve done 15 or 20 films now, and this was definitely the hardest in terms of access. As far as finding out? I was playing in that casino in Niagara Falls there and there are a lot of players from Toronto who go there because there’s no legal poker venue here in Toronto. So I’m playing there and I start meeting people from Toronto who mention these underground clubs and my ears perk up. And as soon as you get your introduction, and they like you, you start getting invited to these other clubs.The first club I played at was on Spadina, in this little place that doesn’t exist anymore. I sat down and told them where I got the name of the club from and the first thing out of the mouth of the guy who owned the place was, “Are you a cop?” And I had to keep playing in order for them to trust that I wasn’t a cop. I kept playing at these clubs and about a month later I got this idea of a documentary. It took months and months and months to gain access not just to these guys’ lives, but their faces. Because it’s illegal to own a club, it’s illegal to run a club, it’s illegal to work at a club, it’s illegal to be in a club playing. So sometimes I’d get permission from the guy who owns the club, and then show up with a camera and seven of the players don’t want to be on camera. And that’s a real problem. I had a gentleman’s agreement with the men who ran the clubs that I would never show the exteriors of the clubs on camera. They’re all buried within the cityscape.
Grinders Trailer from Cornelia Principe on Vimeo.
Is it really something cops care about, these clubs?If you do a Google search, you’ll probably find a few references from 2007 or 2008 of a couple of clubs in the GTA being busted and shut down…It seems to me that the police turn a blind-eye to it. I’ve played at thirty different clubs in Toronto and I’ve never been involved in a bust or an arrest. I think they know about it, but maybe it’s one of those things where the police are busy with other crimes. Personally, I don’t think playing cards should be a crime.Another thing that hangs over the personal side of the film is this sense that you really urgently have to make money because of your mortgage and a baby on the way, and you do this playing cards. But I guess it’s easy to wonder how urgent it was if you’re making a film about it too. Is this just your instinct as a documentary filmmaker?Well the film was commissioned, so I was getting paid to make the documentary. But it’s a two-year process, and it’s not enough money to make a living with. If I calculated my hourly wage for making the film, it’d be far less than minimum wage. So I needed something to make sure we could pay the mortgage. And poker was the one thing that I was good at and I started to make good money at it. It became important for me to keep on playing.Did it step your game up, having the cameras on you?What steps your game up, what makes you play really hard and serious, is having a mortgage and having a baby. Those are two new things for me. A couple years ago, I didn’t have those. So I’m not playing for myself anymore. It makes you play hard, serious, and sober. It’s really critical to have all your wits about you when you go to those tables. Because when you sit down, the guys are friendly, but they’re there to take your money.Stills courtesy of Border City Pictures.Grinders premieres at Hot Docs Friday, April 29. For showtimes, and our review, click here. And for complete Hot Docs coverage, including capsule reviews of most feature films, head over to our handy Hot Docs hub.
Poker has been one of the most popular gambling games for a long time. Over the years, it has become a game that can achieve the dreams of the players in a very short period of time. On the other hand, poker is also able to take away everything from the player in the same short period of time. The world of poker is full of stories of success but also the stories of failure that changed many lives. Besides that, the most successful poker players in the world have been some of the biggest stars in the world and poker tournaments all over the world have caught attention because of their prize pool.
* While for many years poker was available as a table game, thelast couple of years have seen the rise of online poker
*Underground poker has become huge problem for gambling authorities
* Huge number of people are making a living by playing poker
Poker subject matter has been a theme of many different studies all over the world. Over the years, many documentariesmakers have decided to deal with this topic in their research and because of that, a huge number of documentaries about poker was created. In this piece, we will be bringing you the overview of many top documentaries about poker.1.Nosebleed
*Year: 2014
*Author: Victor Saumont
*Country: France
*Cast: Alex ‘Alexonmoon’ Luneau, Sebastien ‘Seb86’ Sabic
Theme: The story of Alex Luneau and Sebastien Sabic and their attempt to win the World Series of Poker in Las VegasNosebleed is adocumentary that follows two French poker players, Alex Luneau and Sebastien Sabic who were professional pokers players and who retired but who still want to try their luck at the poker’s biggest tournament in the world, the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. This documentary follows these two players on their path to the World Series. This documentary provides an insight into the other side of the World Series of Poker from the player’s perspective. It also explores what several weeks of constant poker playing are doing to the players and what the consequences of that kind of competition.This documentary also explores the relationship between these two players in a way that it explores the best qualities of both players and how they helped each other during their careers. As professionals players, both of them have been very successful and both of them won millions while playing poker. However, their biggest dream was to win the title at the World Series of Poker. Throughout the entire documentary, both players discuss their techniques and the recall matches where they have won or lost huge sums of money.2.High Stakes: The Story of Sam Trickett
*Year: 2013
*Author: Richard Adams
*Country: the United Kingdom
*Cast: Sam Trickett
*Theme: The story of how Sam Trickett became one of the most successful poker players in the world
If you have ever wondered how does it look like to be a poker superstar than the documentary called High Stakes: The Story of Sam Trickett is the right documentary for you. Sam Trickett is one of the most successful poker players from the United Kingdom who has managed to win huge sums of money at many poker tournaments. Sam Trickett is known for his high stakes and for his risk play that brought him a lot of success over his career.However, this documentary also takes a look at the darker part of Sam Trickett’s career. At one point in his career, Sam Trickett was struggling with depression that led to gambling addiction. That period in his life was especially tough on him as he was not able to perform well in the tournaments and his desire for playing poker and gambling has been growing strong. Eventually, he managed to overcome all those problems and he is still playing poker professionally. High Stakes: The Story of Sam Trickett is agreat insight into the life of professional poker player and all the issues that come with being a part of professional poker circuit.3.’Anything to Win’ – Amarillo Slim
*Year: 2006
*Author: Kev Stovall
*Country: the United States
*Cast: Doyle Brunson, Todd Brunson, Kathy Liebert, J.V. Martin, ‘Amarillo Slim’ Preston
*Theme:The story of the most famous poker player in the world, Amarillo Slim
For many professional poker players, Amarillo Slim is one of the best poker players in history. This documentary provides an insight into the life of Amarillo Slim who is one of the most important figures in the development of poker in Las Vegas and in the entire world. Amarillo Slim was a gambler in full sense of that world and he would do anything to win. With strong intuition, Amarillo Slim was able to defeat even the best players during his career even when nobody expected him to perform so well.Through a series of interviews with Amarillo Slim’s friends and fellow players, this documentary explores what made this poker player so great and so important for poker in general. Amarillo Slim is not your typical poker player as he has been playing illegal poker matches and he was called a hustler during the initial stages of his career. Besides that, Anything to Win: Amarillo Slim is also painting a very good picture of the society during the 1960s and the decades that followed as poker players were one of the most common targets of robberies and thefts at that time.4.History of Poker
*Year: 2009
*Author: History Channel
*Country: the United States
*Cast: Tom McEvoy, Dave Schwartz, Jennifer Harman, Doyle Brunson, Mason Malmuth
*Theme: Historical development of poker and the story about the best and the greatest professional players throughout the history
History of Poker is adocumentary that deals with the initial stages of poker. It also explores in what kind of conditions poker was developing and how Texas Hold’em Poker became the most popular type of poker. This documentary also explains the basic principles of the game as well as the importance of body language during the matches. Through a series of interviews, viewers are able to get the clear image of what the poker was like back in the 1960s and following years.Besides that, this documentary also depicts some of the biggest figures in thehistory of professional poker. One of those players is Doyle Brunson who is considered to be one of the best poker players. Additionally, through the interviews with historians, this documentary explains some famous terminology from the world of poker, such as ‘dead man hand”. This documentary also reveals how poker players and the entire poker community handled the prohibition of gambling in the United States. Historically, this documentary is one of the best showings of the history of poker and what it took to bring poker to the level it is today.
https://youtu.be/gqAxvjPpj345.The Million Dollar Deal
*Year: 1999
*Author: John Butler
*Country: Ireland
*Cast: Andrew Black, Donnacha O’Dea, Mike Magee, ‘Mad’ Marty Wilson, Mark Napolitano, Amarillo Slim, Scotty Nguyen, Dave ‘Devilish’ Ulliott, Matt Damon
*Theme: The story of 1998 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas
In 1998, some of the biggest names in poker have met in Las Vegas to play at the biggest poker tournament in the world, the World Series of Poker. The Million Dollar Deal documentary follows six mostly Irish players and their experiences at this tournament. This documentary features some of the biggest poker names at that time in the world who talk about their experiences and how they started to play poker for the first time.The stakes at the 1998 World Series of Poker were huge as players were fighting for several million dollars for the first place at the tournament. This documentary witnesses every stage of the competition and it explores what it takes to become a world-class player and what kinds of effects this kind of poker tournaments have on the players. The winner of 1998 World Series of Poker was Scotty Nguyen and he is also a part of this documentary and he speaks about what it takes and how it feels to win the World Series of Poker.
https://youtu.be/gqAxvjPpj346.All In: The Poker Movie
*Year: 2009
*Author: Douglas Tirola
*Country: the United States
*Cast: Karen Abbott, Peter Also, Nick Brancato, Eric Morris, Matt Damon, Joe Cada,
*Theme: Exploring the poker’s renaissance during the 2000s
All in: The Poker Movie is adocumentary that explores the state of poker during the 2000s and what led to poker becoming so mainstream. All the way until the turn of themillennium, poker was not widely spread and there were not a lot of fans outside the circle of professionals who competed in different tournaments. All of sudden, professional poker gained huge popularity and millions of people watched poker tournaments on TV. All these issues are explored in this documentary that might be one of the most important works when it comes to the topic of poker.One of the reasons why poker became so popular was the fact that some of the world’s superstars such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, George Clooney, and many others started to play the game and host matches. That brought poker to the mainstream and since then it became one of the biggest TV events ever. All in: The Poker Movie explores what led to that and why poker players became huge superstars in 2000s that people were screaming for and asking for an autograph.7.A Kid’s Game: The Story of Online Poker
*Year: 2011
*Author: Li Dong
*Country: the United States
*Cast: Martin “Dr. Giggy” Giguere, Alexei “MagicNinja” Martov, Thuy “ShesNoGood” Doan, Di “URinDanger” Dang, Hac “trex313” Dang, Peter “apathy” Jetten, Isaac “LuvtheWNBA” Haxton, Andrew “Good2CU” Robl
*Theme: Interviews with some of the best online poker players in the world
So far, all the documentaries on our list have been dealing with the standard table poker. However, A Kid’s Game: The Story of Online Poker covers the issue of online poker that has been gaining popularity recently. This documentary features interviews with some of the most successful young online poker players in the world and it covers a wide range of different topics. Each interview is a story about the player bu
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Inside: Underground Poker. Author: Jon Bulette. Country: the United States. The cable network presents three straight hours of poker documentaries. And ’Underground Poker,’ featuring Phil Laak. The documentary argues just the opposite and warns of the risks that. Now Place Your Bets. Now Place Your Bets is a 2017 documentary from the mind of James.
*Inside Underground Poker
*Underground Poker Nyc
*New York Underground Poker Documentary
*Underground Gambling Documentary
*Underground Poker Club
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There’s that old song about gambling that talks about how, sometimes, you just gotta know when hold ‘em. And fold ‘em. Then something about walking away and running or some other gambling stuff. In any event, Toronto filmmaker Matt Gallagher has learned the lessons of the sage-like gambling man. With Grinders, Gallagher delved into the world of barely underground poker (and in Toronto, no less). And after a bit of convincing, he brought a camera along.Following his own mission to make money to provide for his family, as well as the varied quests of several other stealthy card sharps peopling Hogtown’s hush-hush gambling establishments, Grinders is a lively profile of a trade plied just under the radar. With high-stakes poker games being broadcast in lieu of real sports all over ESPN, the high roller lifestyle is constantly propagated by the countless rags-to-riches stories of everyday shmoes who have worked their way up the ladder. And we’ve seen a lot about players at the top—the big winners whose power plays and all-in gambits have helped the excitement of poker spread to a mass audience. But it’s rare that we get a sense of the ladder itself.
We talked with Gallagher over the phone about the film, poker, and gaining access to Toronto’s not-so shadowy poker circuit. Also, in one of those classic egg-on-our-faces moments, he read our review of Grinders before the interview, and called us on a comment he took umbrage with. In the interest of transparency, and because rarely do we get a chance to defend ourselves, we left that bit in.Torontoist: So we already did a review of the film. This will be more of, like a profile or Q&A.Matt Gallagher: Well it’s rare that I get to talk to the critic the day after the review.Well I apologize, if anything. Maybe at major dailies they enjoy enough of a division of labour between reviewers and profile-writers that they don’t get in this mess. No it was a great review. The only thing that was like a stab in my heart was the line about “amateurish.” Like what part is amateurish?Oh man, now I have to defend myself.[Laughs] Well this is a rare treat for me!Well it’s a rare…whatever the opposite of treat is for me! [Laughs] But I guess the thing I didn’t really like was how it’s a movie about poker and a movie about gambling and a movie about your family, and I felt that some of the connections between them were…well, that you were threading the needle a little too deliberately. If that makes sense.Well for me when I’m doing these films, you’re always looking for themes that transcend the area of your subject. I’m pretty cognizant of the fact that maybe 5 per cent or 2 per cent of people out there are going to care about a movie about poker. It might as well be Scrabble players or something like that. But I’m looking for those themes that make it more universal.The ol’ pocket Queen/Jack. Or as the pros call it: the ooooooool’ pocket Queen/Jack.
Well that’s great because, in a lot of ways, Hot Docs is such a general interest film festival. Like there’s the “Poker Movie” and the “Guantanamo Movie” and the “Signing Chimp” movie.Documentaries are still in this stage of identifying their genre. And a lot of people watch documentaries for different reasons. Some people watch it for issues, some people watch them for character portraits or something like that. It’s always a struggle. Because some people may come to this film expecting a real exposé into the underground world of illegal poker. And that would be a good film, too. But it’s not a film I wanted to make.Well the thing is that poker seems to be huge. Like it’s not pro Scrabble players or daredevils. There seems to be an audience for a film about it.Well poker has exploded, for sure. But most people I talk to outside of the people I play with are lukewarm about the idea of watching a whole film about poker.It’s one of the interesting things about Grinders too, is that you kind of expect it to be this look behind the curtain into the shady world of underground poker. But it’s so soft boiled.These are guys who are working, right? Like the guys who are making a living at it, going out there every day, they’re not drinking at the table. It’s not the vision of poker you have in the movies where there are lots of cigars and scotch. Most of the illegal clubs I play in don’t serve alcohol. You can’t even bring alcohol in. These guys take their poker really seriously. And some of the games are in, like, the basement of a dentist’s office, and he has a lot of rich friends and they come over and play. It’s varied between warehouses and strip malls and backrooms in Chinatown and Greek social clubs, and these little places all over the city.So how did you go about gaining access to this world? A lot of people play cards for fun. But how do you move from that into, one, finding out that these places exist, and two, convincing them to let you bring a film crew inside these clubs?I’ve done 15 or 20 films now, and this was definitely the hardest in terms of access. As far as finding out? I was playing in that casino in Niagara Falls there and there are a lot of players from Toronto who go there because there’s no legal poker venue here in Toronto. So I’m playing there and I start meeting people from Toronto who mention these underground clubs and my ears perk up. And as soon as you get your introduction, and they like you, you start getting invited to these other clubs.The first club I played at was on Spadina, in this little place that doesn’t exist anymore. I sat down and told them where I got the name of the club from and the first thing out of the mouth of the guy who owned the place was, “Are you a cop?” And I had to keep playing in order for them to trust that I wasn’t a cop. I kept playing at these clubs and about a month later I got this idea of a documentary. It took months and months and months to gain access not just to these guys’ lives, but their faces. Because it’s illegal to own a club, it’s illegal to run a club, it’s illegal to work at a club, it’s illegal to be in a club playing. So sometimes I’d get permission from the guy who owns the club, and then show up with a camera and seven of the players don’t want to be on camera. And that’s a real problem. I had a gentleman’s agreement with the men who ran the clubs that I would never show the exteriors of the clubs on camera. They’re all buried within the cityscape.
Grinders Trailer from Cornelia Principe on Vimeo.
Is it really something cops care about, these clubs?If you do a Google search, you’ll probably find a few references from 2007 or 2008 of a couple of clubs in the GTA being busted and shut down…It seems to me that the police turn a blind-eye to it. I’ve played at thirty different clubs in Toronto and I’ve never been involved in a bust or an arrest. I think they know about it, but maybe it’s one of those things where the police are busy with other crimes. Personally, I don’t think playing cards should be a crime.Another thing that hangs over the personal side of the film is this sense that you really urgently have to make money because of your mortgage and a baby on the way, and you do this playing cards. But I guess it’s easy to wonder how urgent it was if you’re making a film about it too. Is this just your instinct as a documentary filmmaker?Well the film was commissioned, so I was getting paid to make the documentary. But it’s a two-year process, and it’s not enough money to make a living with. If I calculated my hourly wage for making the film, it’d be far less than minimum wage. So I needed something to make sure we could pay the mortgage. And poker was the one thing that I was good at and I started to make good money at it. It became important for me to keep on playing.Did it step your game up, having the cameras on you?What steps your game up, what makes you play really hard and serious, is having a mortgage and having a baby. Those are two new things for me. A couple years ago, I didn’t have those. So I’m not playing for myself anymore. It makes you play hard, serious, and sober. It’s really critical to have all your wits about you when you go to those tables. Because when you sit down, the guys are friendly, but they’re there to take your money.Stills courtesy of Border City Pictures.Grinders premieres at Hot Docs Friday, April 29. For showtimes, and our review, click here. And for complete Hot Docs coverage, including capsule reviews of most feature films, head over to our handy Hot Docs hub.
Poker has been one of the most popular gambling games for a long time. Over the years, it has become a game that can achieve the dreams of the players in a very short period of time. On the other hand, poker is also able to take away everything from the player in the same short period of time. The world of poker is full of stories of success but also the stories of failure that changed many lives. Besides that, the most successful poker players in the world have been some of the biggest stars in the world and poker tournaments all over the world have caught attention because of their prize pool.
* While for many years poker was available as a table game, thelast couple of years have seen the rise of online poker
*Underground poker has become huge problem for gambling authorities
* Huge number of people are making a living by playing poker
Poker subject matter has been a theme of many different studies all over the world. Over the years, many documentariesmakers have decided to deal with this topic in their research and because of that, a huge number of documentaries about poker was created. In this piece, we will be bringing you the overview of many top documentaries about poker.1.Nosebleed
*Year: 2014
*Author: Victor Saumont
*Country: France
*Cast: Alex ‘Alexonmoon’ Luneau, Sebastien ‘Seb86’ Sabic
Theme: The story of Alex Luneau and Sebastien Sabic and their attempt to win the World Series of Poker in Las VegasNosebleed is adocumentary that follows two French poker players, Alex Luneau and Sebastien Sabic who were professional pokers players and who retired but who still want to try their luck at the poker’s biggest tournament in the world, the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. This documentary follows these two players on their path to the World Series. This documentary provides an insight into the other side of the World Series of Poker from the player’s perspective. It also explores what several weeks of constant poker playing are doing to the players and what the consequences of that kind of competition.This documentary also explores the relationship between these two players in a way that it explores the best qualities of both players and how they helped each other during their careers. As professionals players, both of them have been very successful and both of them won millions while playing poker. However, their biggest dream was to win the title at the World Series of Poker. Throughout the entire documentary, both players discuss their techniques and the recall matches where they have won or lost huge sums of money.2.High Stakes: The Story of Sam Trickett
*Year: 2013
*Author: Richard Adams
*Country: the United Kingdom
*Cast: Sam Trickett
*Theme: The story of how Sam Trickett became one of the most successful poker players in the world
If you have ever wondered how does it look like to be a poker superstar than the documentary called High Stakes: The Story of Sam Trickett is the right documentary for you. Sam Trickett is one of the most successful poker players from the United Kingdom who has managed to win huge sums of money at many poker tournaments. Sam Trickett is known for his high stakes and for his risk play that brought him a lot of success over his career.However, this documentary also takes a look at the darker part of Sam Trickett’s career. At one point in his career, Sam Trickett was struggling with depression that led to gambling addiction. That period in his life was especially tough on him as he was not able to perform well in the tournaments and his desire for playing poker and gambling has been growing strong. Eventually, he managed to overcome all those problems and he is still playing poker professionally. High Stakes: The Story of Sam Trickett is agreat insight into the life of professional poker player and all the issues that come with being a part of professional poker circuit.3.’Anything to Win’ – Amarillo Slim
*Year: 2006
*Author: Kev Stovall
*Country: the United States
*Cast: Doyle Brunson, Todd Brunson, Kathy Liebert, J.V. Martin, ‘Amarillo Slim’ Preston
*Theme:The story of the most famous poker player in the world, Amarillo Slim
For many professional poker players, Amarillo Slim is one of the best poker players in history. This documentary provides an insight into the life of Amarillo Slim who is one of the most important figures in the development of poker in Las Vegas and in the entire world. Amarillo Slim was a gambler in full sense of that world and he would do anything to win. With strong intuition, Amarillo Slim was able to defeat even the best players during his career even when nobody expected him to perform so well.Through a series of interviews with Amarillo Slim’s friends and fellow players, this documentary explores what made this poker player so great and so important for poker in general. Amarillo Slim is not your typical poker player as he has been playing illegal poker matches and he was called a hustler during the initial stages of his career. Besides that, Anything to Win: Amarillo Slim is also painting a very good picture of the society during the 1960s and the decades that followed as poker players were one of the most common targets of robberies and thefts at that time.4.History of Poker
*Year: 2009
*Author: History Channel
*Country: the United States
*Cast: Tom McEvoy, Dave Schwartz, Jennifer Harman, Doyle Brunson, Mason Malmuth
*Theme: Historical development of poker and the story about the best and the greatest professional players throughout the history
History of Poker is adocumentary that deals with the initial stages of poker. It also explores in what kind of conditions poker was developing and how Texas Hold’em Poker became the most popular type of poker. This documentary also explains the basic principles of the game as well as the importance of body language during the matches. Through a series of interviews, viewers are able to get the clear image of what the poker was like back in the 1960s and following years.Besides that, this documentary also depicts some of the biggest figures in thehistory of professional poker. One of those players is Doyle Brunson who is considered to be one of the best poker players. Additionally, through the interviews with historians, this documentary explains some famous terminology from the world of poker, such as ‘dead man hand”. This documentary also reveals how poker players and the entire poker community handled the prohibition of gambling in the United States. Historically, this documentary is one of the best showings of the history of poker and what it took to bring poker to the level it is today.
https://youtu.be/gqAxvjPpj345.The Million Dollar Deal
*Year: 1999
*Author: John Butler
*Country: Ireland
*Cast: Andrew Black, Donnacha O’Dea, Mike Magee, ‘Mad’ Marty Wilson, Mark Napolitano, Amarillo Slim, Scotty Nguyen, Dave ‘Devilish’ Ulliott, Matt Damon
*Theme: The story of 1998 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas
In 1998, some of the biggest names in poker have met in Las Vegas to play at the biggest poker tournament in the world, the World Series of Poker. The Million Dollar Deal documentary follows six mostly Irish players and their experiences at this tournament. This documentary features some of the biggest poker names at that time in the world who talk about their experiences and how they started to play poker for the first time.The stakes at the 1998 World Series of Poker were huge as players were fighting for several million dollars for the first place at the tournament. This documentary witnesses every stage of the competition and it explores what it takes to become a world-class player and what kinds of effects this kind of poker tournaments have on the players. The winner of 1998 World Series of Poker was Scotty Nguyen and he is also a part of this documentary and he speaks about what it takes and how it feels to win the World Series of Poker.
https://youtu.be/gqAxvjPpj346.All In: The Poker Movie
*Year: 2009
*Author: Douglas Tirola
*Country: the United States
*Cast: Karen Abbott, Peter Also, Nick Brancato, Eric Morris, Matt Damon, Joe Cada,
*Theme: Exploring the poker’s renaissance during the 2000s
All in: The Poker Movie is adocumentary that explores the state of poker during the 2000s and what led to poker becoming so mainstream. All the way until the turn of themillennium, poker was not widely spread and there were not a lot of fans outside the circle of professionals who competed in different tournaments. All of sudden, professional poker gained huge popularity and millions of people watched poker tournaments on TV. All these issues are explored in this documentary that might be one of the most important works when it comes to the topic of poker.One of the reasons why poker became so popular was the fact that some of the world’s superstars such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, George Clooney, and many others started to play the game and host matches. That brought poker to the mainstream and since then it became one of the biggest TV events ever. All in: The Poker Movie explores what led to that and why poker players became huge superstars in 2000s that people were screaming for and asking for an autograph.7.A Kid’s Game: The Story of Online Poker
*Year: 2011
*Author: Li Dong
*Country: the United States
*Cast: Martin “Dr. Giggy” Giguere, Alexei “MagicNinja” Martov, Thuy “ShesNoGood” Doan, Di “URinDanger” Dang, Hac “trex313” Dang, Peter “apathy” Jetten, Isaac “LuvtheWNBA” Haxton, Andrew “Good2CU” Robl
*Theme: Interviews with some of the best online poker players in the world
So far, all the documentaries on our list have been dealing with the standard table poker. However, A Kid’s Game: The Story of Online Poker covers the issue of online poker that has been gaining popularity recently. This documentary features interviews with some of the most successful young online poker players in the world and it covers a wide range of different topics. Each interview is a story about the player bu
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