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Originally Posted by DogFace
The poker content itself is unremarkable. Not particularly good or interesting. Not 100% accurate, but not so off the mark that it ruins the movie.
How much poker is actually in it?
Based on Stapes' description on his Poker In The Ears podcast, the movie depicts only one actual hand. But the whole project is obviously poker-related enough to warrant getting Schrader on an upcoming episode. Of course, it must have enough poker that they would hire Stapes as a poker consultant. And yet there has been quite a bit of messaging from both Schrader and Stapes that it's "not a poker movie," such as the quoted Tweet above.
Sight still unseen, I'm starting to wonder if poker is little more than the backdrop to a story, similar to the way an Angels baseball game is the setting to the third act of
The Naked Gun. ZAZ also hired a baseball consultant (Jay Johnstone, who cameos as one of the opposing players) to get the look and atmosphere correct. But no one should consider that movie a "baseball movie."