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5 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

I thought you were going to say Trevor is staying at Clemson another year.

Even if he wanted to sit and avoid the jets or jags, he’s still going to go to a bad team regardless of when he enters the draft. Choose your 2-14 destiny. 

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5 minutes ago, SageAgainstTheMachine said:

I feel like it should be reversed since in the movie Bond knows he has the nuts but his opponent snap calls behind three all-ins with only the 3rd nuts.


This is why that scene sucks in a nutshell. 

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6 minutes ago, LeviF91 said:


This is why that scene sucks in a nutshell. 

 

In my mind it's the worst poker scene ever put to film.  It's just a massive 4 way cooler but you're supposed to takeaway that Bond somehow...outsmarted them all?  The only mistake anybody really makes in that hand is that Bond doesn't fold 75ss pre flop from the small blind in what I assume was a raised pot.

 

Like, why not show Bond making an insane hero call with A high to take down Le Chiffre or something?

 

Edit:  Also, just the notion that there's a massively high stakes tournament where ONLY the winner makes any money.  Even for the best poker players in the world that's just lighting money on fire.

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2 minutes ago, SageAgainstTheMachine said:

 

In my mind it's the worst poker scene ever put to film.  It's just a massive 4 way cooler but you're supposed to takeaway that Bond somehow...outsmarted them all?  The only mistake anybody really makes in that hand is that Bond doesn't fold 75ss pre flop from the small blind in what I assume was a raised pot.

 

Like, why not show Bond making an insane hero call with A high to take down Le Chiffre or something?


That would have made a lot more sense. Le Chiffre on a big bluff. Quicker fix at least to explain Le Chiffre’s play is just to give him quad aces, and the other two guys boats. 

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12 minutes ago, LeviF91 said:


That would have made a lot more sense. Le Chiffre on a big bluff. Quicker fix at least to explain Le Chiffre’s play is just to give him quad aces, and the other two guys boats. 

 

Yep.  I mean ultimately Le Chiffre's call with A6 is one he has to make (Bond is probably also shoving with 44, 66 and 88 on that board) but that he would smugly assume his hand is best when he's beaten not only by Bond's ridiculous hand but also A8 is unrealistic. 

 

My assumption is that the producers of that movie consulted with a poker expert and disregarded the better hand he scripted because like with most bad art they assume their audience is too dumb to understand a more nuanced scenario.

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8 minutes ago, SageAgainstTheMachine said:

 

Yep.  I mean ultimately Le Chiffre's call with A6 is one he has to make (Bond is probably also shoving with 44, 66 and 88 on that board) but that he would smugly assume his hand is best when he's beaten not only by Bond's ridiculous hand but also A8 is unrealistic. 

 

My assumption is that the producers of that movie consulted with a poker expert and disregarded the better hand he scripted because like with most bad art they assume their audience is too dumb to understand a more nuanced scenario.


can you break down all the hands from Lucky You next ? 🤑🤑
 


 

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36 minutes ago, SageAgainstTheMachine said:

 

In my mind it's the worst poker scene ever put to film.  It's just a massive 4 way cooler but you're supposed to takeaway that Bond somehow...outsmarted them all?  The only mistake anybody really makes in that hand is that Bond doesn't fold 75ss pre flop from the small blind in what I assume was a raised pot.

 

Like, why not show Bond making an insane hero call with A high to take down Le Chiffre or something?

 

Edit:  Also, just the notion that there's a massively high stakes tournament where ONLY the winner makes any money.  Even for the best poker players in the world that's just lighting money on fire.

COme on...it's not even close to the worst scene. Like you said it's just a cooler between four guys who all either have ridiculous bankrolls or are staked/backed either by the house or the British government. There's no implication that any of these guys are supposed to be top pros iirc.

 

The Rounders scene where Mike is recounting his run-in with Johnny Chan is the worst poker scene ever. First off he says he sits a 300/600 table with 6k which wouldn't even been allowed most likely. Second, the hand he tells Knish about is all preflop, meaning that the action would have had to have gone: min raise-min raise-min3bet-min4bet and Chan FOLDS to shove of about 2BB lmfao. This isn't even getting into the fact that Johnny Chan did all this against some unknown dude who just bought in pathetically short looking to get his 10BB stack in against the best of all time without knowing 100% his range needs to be QQ+ to even consider some whacky min raise line like he took.

 

 

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8 minutes ago, Teddy KGB said:


can you break down all the hands from Lucky You next ? 🤑🤑
 


 

 

That hand is actually played realistically in that Eric Bana is shoving specifically to look polarized (essentially a set, maaaybe 97, or bluffing with air) and Robert Duvall has a combo draw with 15 outs to what he assumes is the best hand since Bana is never making that play with big diamonds.  That's a 30% chance of hitting and if the pot odds are any better than 2:1 it's a good call.  Not sure how into the game you are but Barry Greenstein and Sammy Farha, two top 50 players of all time if not better, make a cameo here.

The big problem with THAT scene is that Duvall is an acting legend compared to Bana and makes him look like a bad community theatre actor. :D

1 minute ago, GoBills808 said:

COme on...it's not even close to the worst scene. Like you said it's just a cooler between four guys who all either have ridiculous bankrolls or are staked/backed either by the house or the British government. There's no implication that any of these guys are supposed to be top pros iirc.

 

The Rounders scene where Mike is recounting his run-in with Johnny Chan is the worst poker scene ever. First off he says he sits a 300/600 table with 6k which wouldn't even been allowed most likely. Second, the hand he tells Knish about is all preflop, meaning that the action would have had to have gone: min raise-min raise-min3bet-min4bet and Chan FOLDS to shove of about 2BB lmfao. This isn't even getting into the fact that Johnny Chan did all this against some unknown dude who just bought in pathetically short looking to get his 10BB stack in against the best of all time without knowing 100% his range needs to be QQ+ to even consider some whacky min raise line like he took.

 

 

 

That one is certainly awful too and in that scene Mike McD tells Knish that he didn't get unlucky against Teddy KGB but was outplayed, which is an awful take.  Mike's only mistake was playing with his entire bankroll.

 

I still say the Casino Royale scene is worse though because the entire narrative of that film franchise drives at the idea that Bond is an indomitable badass who's better than everyone at everything and at the pivotal moment of the whole film they just show him getting lucky.

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23 minutes ago, SageAgainstTheMachine said:

 

That hand is actually played realistically in that Eric Bana is shoving specifically to look polarized (essentially a set, maaaybe 97, or bluffing with air) and Robert Duvall has a combo draw with 15 outs to what he assumes is the best hand since Bana is never making that play with big diamonds.  That's a 30% chance of hitting and if the pot odds are any better than 2:1 it's a good call.  Not sure how into the game you are but Barry Greenstein and Sammy Farha, two top 50 players of all time if not better, make a cameo here.

The big problem with THAT scene is that Duvall is an acting legend compared to Bana and makes him look like a bad community theatre actor. :D

 

That one is certainly awful too and in that scene Mike McD tells Knish that he didn't get unlucky against Teddy KGB but was outplayed, which is an awful take.  Mike's only mistake was playing with his entire bankroll.

 

I still say the Casino Royale scene is worse though because the entire narrative of that film franchise drives at the idea that Bond is an indomitable badass who's better than everyone at everything and at the pivotal moment of the whole film they just show him getting lucky.


Sammy Farha and Tony G are my spirit animals 😝😝.

 

I’m way deep. 

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