Darren Elias, four-time World Poker Tour champion, rates poker scenes in movies and television for realism.
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00:00A higher full house.
00:03Five and seven of spades.
00:07A straight flush.
00:09So, Bond's hand here, the straight flush.
00:11In movies, you're always going to see these huge hands.
00:13Really, the unrealistic part comes when everybody has these hands at the same time.
00:18It's like winning the lottery while getting struck by lightning.
00:22Hi, my name is Darren Elias.
00:23I'm a four-time World Poker Tour champion,
00:25and I've been a professional poker player for nearly two decades.
00:28Today, we'll be looking at poker scenes in movies and TV,
00:31and judge how real they are.
00:40I'm laying this down, Teddy.
00:42This is the famous Oreo poker tale.
00:46I guess it is worth saying that Rounders is almost unanimously the best poker movie ever made.
00:51So, these guys are playing No Limit Texas Hold'em,
00:53which is the most common poker game played these days.
00:56Each player is dealt two cards.
00:57You're trying to make the best five-card poker hand.
00:59So, using your two cards in combination with the five community cards to make the best hand.
01:04Mikey McD laying down ace-five there.
01:06I could see recognizing a tell and folding a good hand.
01:09That probably wouldn't be as obvious as a guy only eats his Oreos when he has the best hand.
01:13It would probably be something a little more subtle.
01:19Two grand.
01:20The only knock on Rounders would be bet sizing, I think, where there's $400 in this pot and Teddy KGB bets $2,000.
01:29So, for a player to bet $2,000 five times the pot on the flop, pretty uncharacteristic, doesn't happen very often.
01:35And you would think a player who Teddy KGB, although fictional, is regarded as a decent player probably wouldn't be betting five times the pot here.
01:44Also, they would probably have a dealer is the only other unrealistic aspect where they probably wouldn't just be dealing to each other.
01:50So, a lot of the scenes in Rounders are underground games, and this is a real thing.
02:01While it's not necessarily illegal to play in the game, it is illegal to run the game and to take a rake.
02:06Playing an underground game comes with a lot more risk than playing in a casino.
02:10Where, if you're playing in a casino, there are some safeguards where you know the dealer is probably not cheating you.
02:16There are cameras, you know that you're always going to be able to cash your chips after you win.
02:21In an underground game, you don't really have the security.
02:24I generally tend to avoid the private games because of all these pitfalls that could happen.
02:28Check.
02:30I flopped and not strayed.
02:37And Matt Damon's character here probably had in his mind that he was going to trap Teddy KGB the whole way.
02:42So, just check and then call and not put in a raise, not reveal the strength of his hand.
02:46So, being a bit cagey here and looking to trap.
02:49And I think if you are playing an opponent who's making big bets like that, the likelihood that they're going to continue betting like that is pretty high.
02:57So, I think he probably chose a good line, as we would say here, in check calling and trapping Teddy.
03:03Yeah, Teddy KGB definitely seems a bit rattled in this scene and it's towards the end of the heads up match.
03:13These emotions may be starting to creep into his play.
03:15And that's really when you can win the most money from a player when they're tilted when they might not be on their best game.
03:21So, I think that's what's happening here.
03:23I would give this scene in rounders an 8 out of 10.
03:26Tough to be too harsh on rounders. I think the only nitpicking thing that is wrong with rounders is bet sizing issues really.
03:33The game had regulars and the game had guests.
03:36Checkerbet.
03:37And four of the regulars were famous actors.
03:39So, Molly's game based on Molly Bloom running a private cash game with A-list Hollywood actors, influential people.
03:48And this is something that happens in real life and I've encountered a few of them.
03:52I've played with Michael Phelps, Nelly, Kelly Rowland.
03:56It's tough to infiltrate these private games if you're not among the circle.
04:02Most of these celebrities or influential people do not want to lose their money to a professional poker player they don't know.
04:08I swear on my mother's life I have you.
04:10He's staring at his cards. Even a reasonably good amateur would know it was mathematically the best hand, which in poker is called the nut.
04:17F*** you.
04:19And it is, while frowned upon a little bit to talk like that, it's not something I do.
04:24Unrealistic that a player would fold the nut specifically.
04:27The nut just means you have the best possible hand at that moment.
04:30But then again, if you're in a private game and you're with players who don't really know how to play, they may not know that's the best hand.
04:36If your opponents fold, you win the pot regardless of your card.
04:39So, bluffing very much a huge factor.
04:41I could certainly believe something like that would happen in a big private game.
04:44The best player at most tables was about to get bluffed off the win by, of all people, bad Brad.
04:50I had one pair. The nines in the middle.
04:53There's always a bad Brad in the private games.
04:56So, that's a good example of playing the strategy in the situation versus playing the player.
05:01Where here, if he'd have just known his opponent and known that the guy doesn't really know how to play, then this becomes a pretty easy call.
05:07And this is certainly something that happens when players are not familiar with each other.
05:11You're kind of stuck playing a more simpler strategy.
05:15Just give me 500,000.
05:18I just gotta get back to E-Man.
05:20That should be the second line of every gambler's obit. Harlan never did.
05:24We see this character Harlan tailspin, lose a big pot, borrow a bunch of money, and kind of destroy his life.
05:30And that's something that, with experience, poker players have gotten used to.
05:34Where we can distance ourselves from the results a little bit and realize that poker is one long game.
05:39Where we don't have to try to win the money back right away.
05:41I think less experienced players are more likely to go on tilts.
05:45And I definitely had trouble dealing with tilt, things like that, when I was younger.
05:49I was a lot less in control of myself and my emotions.
05:52Do you have a higher rating than rounders? I have to think about this.
05:55I would give Molly's game a 9 out of 10 based on those two scenes.
05:59Both scenes in a private game were things that could actually happen.
06:04I thought we'd play a game.
06:06Zivina decides who lives and who does not.
06:10And who does not.
06:11I would say that. If a guy's handling the cards and the ace of spades is just flying out and he's trying to deal you a poker hand.
06:16I would be weary about sitting in this game.
06:19Five card draw.
06:22Five card draw, they say, which is a pretty common game to be played in movies.
06:33Not so commonly played anymore.
06:35I would say five card draw is a game that was played a lot before 2000.
06:39Five card draw is a game where all players get dealt five cards.
06:42There's a round of betting, so everyone gets to make a bet.
06:45And then they can trade cards for new cards.
06:48Dead man's hand, Mr. Wick.
06:54Wick has aces and aides here.
06:57Dead man's hand, pretty fitting for John Wick to have that hand as he seems to kill people by the dozens in these movies.
07:05So aces and aides is known as dead man's hand, wild Bill Hickok.
07:09I think South Dakota, Deadwood, something like that in the late 1800s where he was playing five card draw and had aces and aides in his hand and was shot in the back of the head.
07:17And from then on, it's known as dead man's hand.
07:21And debated a little bit whether they were black or red or what suits or what the other card was.
07:26But I think it's kind of accepted that black aces and eights is probably what the actual hand was.
07:33Four nines.
07:35Ah, Royal Flush.
07:39They had already lost.
07:41Let me guess, five of a kind?
07:43So we had four of a kind, a Royal Flush and five deuces in a four handed game of five card draw, which is pretty absurd.
07:51So to run down the hand rankings, what beats what?
07:54No, no pair.
07:55So this would just be a high card hand.
07:57So this is the worst hand in poker you could have.
08:00After that, it would be one pair.
08:03After one pair comes two pair but loses to three of a kind.
08:08After three of a kind comes a straight.
08:11So a flush, which beats a straight but loses to a full house.
08:16After a full house comes four of a kind.
08:19A straight flush and the only hand that beats a straight flush would be a Royal Flush.
08:23Unbeatable hand.
08:24Unless you're in a John Wick movie.
08:26Now maybe a little bit.
08:31Probably the most realistic part of the scene is John Wick cutting the guy's throat with a playing card.
08:37Where that could actually happen.
08:39Lower quality playing cards are made of like paper or card stock.
08:42But if you're in a casino or you're playing with a nice stack of cards, they're made of plastic and they do have an edge.
08:48So a man of John Wick skill sets could probably cut somebody with a playing card.
08:53I've seen players that can throw a card and cut through a banana or a cucumber or things like that.
08:58I'll rate John Wick a one, I would say, just for that card throw at the end.
09:03It was worth it to discover his tell.
09:05The twitch he has to hide when he blows.
09:07It's the tell he is bluffing.
09:11Very obvious tell.
09:12If a guy is this good at poker that he's playing for millions of dollars, typically he wouldn't have a tell so obvious that a spectator sitting at the bar could see it.
09:20The staring element in poker can definitely seem uncomfortable to a civilian or a regular person, but it is a part of the game.
09:30Some players more than others, especially professionals, will really stare intently at their opponents.
09:34And we're really just trying to gain any information.
09:38And other players do do it for intimidation factor, maybe to make their opponents feel uncomfortable.
09:43Other players won't look at you at all.
09:45So it really depends on who you're playing against.
09:47Full house, kings and aces.
09:52You see Le Chiffre?
09:57So a lot to unpack here.
09:58Bond has a full house here, kings full of aces.
10:01An incredibly strong hand, where he would probably put the money in no matter what, regardless of the tell.
10:06Whether he knew Le Chiffre was bluffing here or not.
10:09Doesn't really matter.
10:10In poker parlance we would call this a cooler.
10:12Where two players have very strong hands and all the money is going to go in, no matter what.
10:16Kind of regardless of the skill level of the player.
10:19That part makes sense.
10:20And then also worth noting, the Bond villain here.
10:23When he tables his cards, only shows one jack and then spreads the other jack.
10:28That would be a slow roll in poker, which is very bad etiquette.
10:32Where he's kind of saying, oh I just had a jack here.
10:35Oh wait, I actually have four jacks.
10:36I had you beat.
10:37So that's frowned upon, very bad etiquette.
10:40But from a Bond villain, I guess the shoe fits.
10:49Race.
10:51A lot of plaques going in the middle.
10:53The plaques being those plastic markers there.
10:56Those are usually used in casinos and they're the higher denomination.
10:59Usually it goes all the way up to chips to a certain amount.
11:02And then if you're playing super high stakes, you'll get a plaque that I think in this game they're worth 500,000 or a million dollars.
11:07Something like that.
11:08115 million in the pot.
11:11Gentlemen, shut arm please.
11:13115 million for one hand of poker is nuts, by the way.
11:16I would say that's probably an order of magnitude bigger than anything ever played.
11:22I would say there's been a lot of seven figure cash game pots in poker in the history of poker.
11:27Maybe a couple eight figure pots.
11:29Over a 100 million.
11:30This is fantasy land in my eyes.
11:32Where there's no nine figure pots going down in poker today.
11:41Full house.
11:42Eight full of aces.
11:43The way the dealer's manipulating the cards there and putting them into the board, not realistic.
11:47A dealer would never do that.
11:48I think it's more for the movie they wanted to show how the hands would look.
11:52The higher full house.
11:56Five and seven of spades.
12:02The straight flush.
12:04Bond comes over the top.
12:06So Bond's hand here, the straight flush, five seven of spades, something around 3,500 to one to make.
12:11So that is a rarity.
12:13And in movies you're always going to see these huge hands, these statistical improbabilities.
12:18And really the unrealistic part comes when everybody has these hands at the same time.
12:23Where I can certainly believe someone having a straight flush and someone having a full house.
12:28But when you start to add in multiple players having all these good hands, it's like winning the lottery while getting struck by lightning.
12:35Do you think of that much?
12:37Tipping is very common in poker.
12:39It's a big part of the culture.
12:40In cash games I think Bond tipping half a million dollars here after this hand is nuts.
12:45I don't think I've ever seen a tip like that.
12:47I would say if you win a big tournament where you're winning millions of dollars, there could be a big tip in a scenario like that.
12:53Because players might tip one or two percent, one and a half percent of the winnings.
12:57I think the most I've ever tipped is probably $10,000 on a poker tournament.
13:00Okay, I think I'd give Casino Royale a three out of ten on this scene.
13:05I do like the setting with the players are dressed and the whole vibe in there.
13:11But the actual poker play itself, a bit unrealistic.
13:15This is on the table. That's my car. Want to bet?
13:20I'm sorry Mr. Demetrius.
13:22The classic table stakes versus open stakes that we see in movies all the time.
13:25Which is an outdated format where players can bet cars, watches, jewelry, anything.
13:31Where poker is mostly played with table stakes, meaning you can only bet the amount of money you've bought in for the chips on the table.
13:37So Bond accepts his wager there.
13:41And although this is table stakes, I will say in high stakes games the players are in charge and have a little more latitude with the rules I would say.
13:50So it's basically a gentleman's agreement that the car, we're betting the car versus the amount of the car on this hand.
13:56And that wouldn't be enforced by the casino or anything, but that's just a side deal.
14:00So this could happen in theory, but I've certainly never seen this happen in the millions of hands I've played at poker.
14:15Dealer seems a little too happy about Bond winning there.
14:17Dealers are supposed to remain neutral and she seems a little happy.
14:21It's a little smitten that Bond won this pot. I don't know about that.
14:25I'm gonna stick with 3 out of 10 here for Casino Royale.
14:28Both of these not realistic scenes very much.
14:31As much as I do enjoy them, I would say they're not very realistic.
14:41I'm gonna sneak in the cold deck here.
14:43So it looks like we're playing five card draw here again.
14:46Which is common in these older movies in the westerns to be playing five card draw.
14:50So this is a pre-draw. So we see Paul Newman has three of a kind.
14:57You're 1,000? I'll raise you 2,000.
15:00I will say that this method of betting, where you see it a lot in movies, old time westerns.
15:06I'll call your 500 and raise you another 1,000.
15:09Or call your 1,000 and raise you more money.
15:12That is technically illegal. That's string betting.
15:15Where as soon as you're going to say I call the bet,
15:18or you put your money in the middle, then you're not allowed to raise.
15:21So if you are going to raise, your first action needs to be to raise.
15:25In reality, it would just be raise to 2,000 or something like that.
15:28Four-nine. Four jacks.
15:33So a bit of a cheating, cheater versus cheater scenario here, it looks like,
15:39where the player with four nines had kind of set up the deck or had it rigged
15:44and Paul Newman would have four threes.
15:46And then Paul Newman pulled a fast one here and somehow switched in four jacks.
15:50A little unrealistic because cheaters are usually very attuned to what's going on
15:54and catching other players cheating because they're so used to doing it themselves.
15:58I would give this a 7 out of 10 just because the cheating can happen.
16:03And...
16:06Invested.
16:07Hey, Lisa, check out your college fund.
16:09Hilarious that her screen name is Lisa Simpson College Fund.
16:12My generation, I would say, a lot of us came up playing online poker.
16:15When I first started playing, that was a big bulk of my play was online.
16:19And that's where I learned a lot of my play.
16:21And players, you're able to play many more hands online
16:25because you can play 5, 6, 10 games at once.
16:28Read every expert on poker and watch Jennifer Tilly's DVD.
16:31Start with your Simpsons money.
16:33Oh, shout out Jennifer Tilly.
16:35I've played a lot of poker against her, TV games, cash games, tournaments.
16:39She is a treat to play with, love her energy at the table,
16:42and was actually married to the creator of The Simpsons, Sam Simon, I think.
16:46So funny connecting the dots seeing her here.
16:50Full house! Aces number threes!
16:54She's got $400,000 there sitting with pocket aces and just rivered a full house.
16:59So things looking good for Lisa.
17:01A lot of professional players my age had a journey similar to Lisa Simpson
17:06where the games were good enough back then
17:09where a player could deposit $50 or $100 and end up with hundreds of thousands
17:14if you played your cards right.
17:16If only the screen actually went busted and flashed up like that
17:26and when you actually lose that would be great.
17:28With this scene it is interesting that Lisa's always betting all of her money,
17:32her whole bankroll, where she starts with $5,000 and then she has $400,000
17:36and then she has $400,000 and she's betting it all on one hand.
17:38Where that's not super realistic where you're allowed to take money off the table
17:42where you can still only put $5,000 on the table and then you can't lose the other $400,000.
17:46So we call that bankroll management.
17:49How much money you're risking in poker compared to how much money you have.
17:53As a kid you wouldn't expect she would know anything about bankroll management
17:59so it makes sense that she would risk all of the money and players do do this.
18:03I was certainly guilty of this as a young player.
18:06After I won the website found out we were both under 18.
18:09So we're back to the original $5,000.
18:11Shame.
18:12Definitely there has been some underage online poker that's been played.
18:16These sites would confiscate the money if they found out for sure you were playing underage.
18:19It's a bit tricky to enforce and to catch.
18:23I'll give The Simpsons a six.
18:24This is a realistic spin-up of a bankroll online.
18:28Maybe a little unrealistic how big the stakes are
18:33and that she's playing against her brother on another account.
18:35We're gonna begin with five card draw.
18:37Josh.
18:38Yeah.
18:39To the left.
18:40Deal to your left.
18:42If a player was dealing and they started going to the right
18:45that would be a telltale sign that they don't play a lot of cards
18:48because almost any card game you're going to deal clockwise.
18:52So that's a...
18:53This is a scene where they're showing everyone's amateurs.
18:55Brad Pitt is coaching them.
18:56Kind of teaching them how to play poker I think.
18:58So that makes sense that he would deal the wrong way.
19:01Ballas. Ballas.
19:03All.
19:04Okay.
19:05Red.
19:06So this is something that could happen with amateurs playing
19:09where he thinks this is a good hand.
19:11It's just two diamonds, three hearts, no straights, no flushes,
19:15but it says all red and he thinks it's a flush or something.
19:18And this is something that can happen with players
19:20who don't know the hand rankings or don't know how to play.
19:22That's $500.
19:24Guys, what's the first lesson in poker?
19:26No, leave emotion at the door.
19:28That's right, Topher.
19:29I think Brad Pitt coaching these guys is giving pretty good advice
19:33and emotion, you should leave your emotion at the door.
19:36I think emotion and ego can get you in a lot of trouble in poker.
19:39And being able to play without that more of a cold, calculated approach
19:44probably would be a good plan for a lot of players.
19:47Yeah, keeping a poker face is crucial, especially during the hand.
19:50Call.
19:51Call.
19:52Call.
19:53Call.
19:54I'm not sure what four nines does, but the ace I think is pretty high.
19:59Excuse me.
20:00So you're at the end of the hand and George Clooney's made a bet
20:03and all the players at the table are calling.
20:06So that's usually a good sign that there's inexperienced players in the game
20:10or you're in a good game.
20:12Because as you get towards the end of a hand,
20:14players should have an idea of where they are.
20:17Are they able to win the hand?
20:19And the more players you're playing against,
20:20the better hands you're going to need to win.
20:22Experienced players, professionals know this.
20:25Inexperienced players sometimes will get tunnel vision on their hand
20:29and not really realize that they have to beat all these other players
20:32and that they're probably better off going out.
20:35I'll give it a 5 out of 10.
20:37I think the idea of a player coaching celebrities,
20:40that could happen, something like this.
20:42The actual gameplay and the setup, I'm not sure.
20:45I'm out.
20:46You gentlemen mind if I take his spot?
20:49If and you play his hand.
20:52I would prefer not to.
20:57Uh-oh.
20:58Dead man's hand.
21:01Always an ominous forewarning or something.
21:05I feel like there's going to be a shootout
21:07or someone's going to die whenever I see it in movies.
21:09If I'm in a tournament or a cash game playing for a lot of money,
21:11no, I would not fold Dead man's hand
21:13just because of what happened to Wild Bill Hickok.
21:15It doesn't get mentioned too much at all, I would say,
21:17among professional poker players or circles,
21:19but a lot of hands do have nicknames like that.
21:22You've seen him. You play him.
21:26And if and I don't.
21:29So it seems like this guy's just looking for trouble.
21:32There's no rule, of course, if you sit down at the table
21:34and look at a hand, you have to play it.
21:36Of course, you would not want to play a hand
21:38that had already been folded by somebody else.
21:40The card's fancy, Dan.
21:42Can't no one compel another man to engage in recreation?
21:46Poker definitely was a big part of America in these times,
21:511800s, 1900s, saloons and cowboys.
21:55I think poker came to the U.S. sometime in the early 1800s,
21:59evolving from other games from Europe.
22:03I think there's a Persian game called Asnas,
22:05which uses 20 cards and is a version of five-card stud,
22:09and poke, a French game that came through New Orleans
22:13in the early 1800s.
22:14American settlers started playing,
22:16and the game really evolved over time
22:18because people wanted to add more rounds of betting,
22:21more cards.
22:22I guess I'd give this a six out of ten.
22:24The player has a realistic reaction to someone
22:27trying to make him play a hand that he doesn't have to play.
22:298. The count is still plus 16.
22:37So this is blackjack.
22:38This is actually not poker,
22:40but it makes sense that it would get thrown in here
22:42because I think the everyday person
22:45conflates poker and blackjack quite a bit,
22:47and when I tell someone I'm a professional poker player,
22:49one of the first questions I usually get is,
22:51do you count cards?
22:53Which is a blackjack method, not poker.
22:5621 actually, a very good story.
22:58I read the books, Bringing Down the House, Busting Vegas,
23:01where this is based on a true story,
23:03and pretty interesting.
23:05Plus 12.
23:079.
23:08Still plus 12.
23:09Blackjack.
23:13So we see the player here keeping the count in blackjack,
23:16and although it's, I think it's overblown a little bit
23:21how difficult it is to count cards in blackjack,
23:23blackjack is just trying to get 21 without going over.
23:27So, similar to poker,
23:28I would say the math required for counting cards
23:30is not difficult.
23:31It's just addition and subtraction.
23:33The difficult part become, is in the execution.
23:36Being subtle about your betting or your technique
23:39to be able to play as long as you can
23:41without the casino kicking you out
23:43because that is the biggest challenge for blackjack players
23:46or card counters because casinos want to deter players
23:50who can beat them obviously to play that game.
23:52And the way this system worked with this specific blackjack team
23:56where they would go to the casino,
23:58spread out a bunch of players among these tables,
24:00and wait for favorable counts.
24:03So I think that's, they show she puts her arms behind her back
24:05or something like that, that signals him to come over.
24:07Despite not being poker, this is a 9 out of 10.
24:10I would say this is a very realistic card counting blackjack casino scene.
24:14Huck calls, and Ralph calls.
24:22I think that's John.
24:24A couple cameos here from poker players.
24:26That's John Hennigan with the sunglasses,
24:29a poker hall of famer and all-time legend.
24:33That's a good cameo for them together,
24:35and I think that's Matt Savage on the microphone.
24:37That's a famous tournament director as well.
24:39And this is a realistic poker tournament final table setting.
24:43where I recognize the software on the computer screen there,
24:46which is something they typically use for poker tournament final tables.
24:50Call.
24:52Huck calls.
24:54Ralph Kaczynski.
24:55The applause is a little much.
24:57There's cheering more so when players are all-in
25:00or if the cards are face-up, they're cheering for certain cards.
25:03People wouldn't be like, he calls, and people wouldn't clap.
25:06I don't really think that would happen.
25:08Ralph Kaczynski has kings and jacks to pair.
25:11Huck has a set of threes.
25:18I mean, that's a pretty good hand top two pair.
25:20First, the set of threes.
25:21This is a realistic showdown where compared to some of the other films we've seen,
25:25this is something that in Hold'em, these hands could happen at a reasonable clip
25:30and the money would go in.
25:31So this is a more realistic depiction of poker.
25:35Kings.
25:36Nice hand.
25:38They're good.
25:40Woo!
25:41L.C. Cheever wins the pot.
25:43He mucks the winner.
25:44So I guess the story is their father-son, I think, in this movie.
25:49And he's letting his dad win, I guess is the storyline there.
25:54You can't do that in poker though.
25:56Especially that particular hand.
26:00The dad is all-in.
26:03The son calls.
26:04You have to turn over both hands in a tournament.
26:06They actually have a rule to prevent collusion where in all-in pots both hands should be turned over.
26:11So he wouldn't really be allowed to just throw it in the muck.
26:15The dealer would stop that and turn his hand over probably.
26:18I would give this an eight out of ten.
26:21I think that the setting is realistic.
26:23The clapping and the collusion folding the winner on the end.
26:28I have to dock it a few points.
26:30Now I'll bet I can change your mind.
26:32I promise that I will lose for at least an hour.
26:37So Maverick declares he's going to play and he's going to lose for the first hour.
26:40Losing for an hour to watch everybody's tells.
26:43I can't really get behind it just from a tell perspective.
26:47But there is something to it of just observing the action for an hour.
26:51Because you do get to watch how the players play.
26:53How much they're betting.
26:54It's not just the tells.
26:55So there is more to be gained than just the body language.
26:59So there is something to that.
27:01And pro players maybe early in a tournament or a cash game.
27:05They may call a bet just to see an opponent's cards.
27:08If they don't know that opponent.
27:10To get more information for later.
27:12So that is something that is real.
27:15Making up a small investment early.
27:17That might pay off later in the form of a bigger win.
27:21There we see little tells that he might be picking up on there.
27:29That's Jodie Foster's character there.
27:31That's called a pacifying behavior.
27:33When you touch your neck there.
27:35That's something that someone can do when they're nervous.
27:38There's little nerve endings there.
27:40That by touching them kind of calms your body down.
27:42And there's tons of different spots on your body.
27:45Where players can do that.
27:47When they feel nervous or uncomfortable.
27:48But that's certainly one of them.
27:49Oh s**t.
27:50I'm old.
27:56Hey dude.
27:57Never paid to look.
27:58Really bad etiquette to what this player has done here.
28:01Is Mel Gibson's won the hand and mucked his cards.
28:04So slid them face down.
28:05And this player reaches across the table.
28:07Turns them over.
28:08And he hasn't called the bet on the river or the end.
28:10Something I have seen over the years in casinos.
28:12If a player does this in a tournament.
28:14They would get a penalty though.
28:15I've seen two round, three round penalties for this.
28:18Where frowned upon.
28:20As it's poker considered a gentleman's game.
28:23And you should be able to safely slide your cards face down.
28:26And not have to worry about someone flipping them over.
28:28I would give this a 7 out of 10.
28:32I think he's clearly the most skilled player at the table.
28:36Tells them he's going to lose on purpose.
28:38Collects some information.
28:39And then beats them.
28:40I just don't.
28:41I don't know if he would be throwing it in their face like that.
28:43My favorite poker movie is Rounders.
28:45Just because I think it portrays the poker scene in the best light.
28:49And the most realistic light.
28:50The underground poker scene.
28:51I really aspired.
28:52I watched that as a kid.
28:53And I wanted to play for that much money.
28:55And I think it's awesome.
28:56Thanks for watching.
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