Image of Poker in Movies

Movies are a source of depicting the real lives. May not be exactly, but the theme does coincide with real life activities. By deleting the songs, the heavy dialogues, and the extra melo-drama, we could actually get some part of our life.

Most of the movies are basically made by dedicating to a particular event, or a particular person, or games, irrespective of their genres, it may be thriller, or horror, or romantic, or a science-fiction movie, every movie has some part of real life experience for sure.

Since, we are basically focusing on the Poker game, so let’s just keep our point concrete and clear about the movies based on this particular game. Lots of movies are made based on the Poker game, some of them are: Maverick (1994), Rounders (1998), Oceans Series [11, 12, 13] (2001, 2004, 2007 respectively), Deal (2008), All in-The Poker Movie (2012), All or Nothing (2013).

Now, let’s start with the images of Poker, shall we?

Well, the film – Maverick depicts the life of a poker player, who would rather con someone, than to fight with them.

–          Rounders is a movie that takes us inside a world of high-stakes card players but falls short on such essentials as character development, relationships, still being the part of a real curiosity, written by a couple of guys who appear to know something about the dark reality of card hustling for fun and profit.

–          Oceans Series 3 of these movies shows us the way a gang, con the thieves and artists, to make money, and then travel to Amsterdam to con again but individually, and at last the way they save their close friend, who suffered from a heart attack due to a sour poker deal.

–          Deal is a movie which shows the kind of players, a novice, another an expert, how an expert teaches a novice young poker player about the tricks, and the way the young player gives the expert a tough competition when they both faced each other in an epic WPT Championship.

–          All in-The Poker Movie This documentary movie tells a riveting story of how the one of the oldest games has had a huge renaissance over the last few years. It also shows the moneymaker effect and how poker is now a hip game that attracts thousands to the famous WSOP every single year.

–          All or Nothing This documentary movie tells a riveting story of how the one of the oldest games has had a huge renaissance over the last few years. It also shows the moneymaker effect and how poker is now a hip game that attracts thousands to the famous WSOP every single year.

So, most of the movies have shown this old game as a gambling game, where the player either cons somebody, or gets so addicted that, he wastes all his money on those things. But this is not all the way true, there are still many players who play those games just for having fun, and to learn about the different card games.

So what do you think about the Game of Poker?

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How is “Poker” Similar to “Life”?

“Life”: The first thing that comes to our mind for this term is “ups and downs”.

Isn’t it?

Well I guess all of your answers matches mine. Yeah, Life is full of ups and downs, and it does have some villains in the scene as well. Poker is also the same, it does have some ups and downs as well, whenever you perform well in the game, those are your “up” times, and whenever you lose a bet in the game, that is your “down” time. And Poker game does have a villain, who tries to defeat you. Let’s check a table of similarities between “Poker” and “Life”.

Similarities
Points	Poker	Life
Happiness/Celebrations	Whenever you win a match	Whenever you get something you desired.
Sorrow	Whenever you lose a match	Whenever you don’t get the thing you desired for.
Saviours	Someone who teaches you the trick and strategies to win the game	Someone who saves you from an ugly situation.
Villains	Who tries to defeat you in the game	For whom you get trapped into ugly situation.
Grudge/Revenge	Who have taken all your money by defeating you.	Who have made you suffer bad situations
Partner	The one who plays with/for you.	Your spouse or beloved.
Bad times	Getting hands, you dint wish for.	Getting situations, you dint wish for.

Some of the other similarities are pots, hands, flops, rivers, turns and etc. That goes both for poker as well as life.

The concept of life that has been shown in movies is quite different than the real life, every time the happy ending is not guaranteed. The same thing goes for the poker game as well, the concepts that has been shown in Movies, are like, People goes to casinos, to play poker games with some guy wearing a black hoodie, and who turns out to be a villain, beside whom the dancers keep on dancing, but at the end the hero wins, and the dancers shift towards him, to dedicate a dance for him, and then there starts a fighting, hero wins it again and he gets the heroin, and then live happily ever after. But it is too different then the real life poker games, neither the hero wins every time, nor the dancers dance for him. So, this concludes to a new saying: “Life is a game of Poker”

Both in Poker and Life, sometimes you got to deal with some nuts, maniacs, geeks, novice, experts, villains, and the heroes. And every time if you just know the way to deal with those persons tactfully, then you are a winner. And one thing that goes for both of them very well is, “If you can’t beat them, then bluff them”.