I am pretty sure that at the time Taj poker room didn't use comp cards, you had to get stamped by the floor. Also, there was no noodle bar till way later.

Worm is not a reliable narrator.

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Movies can get "stupid" because the producers often assume the audience is stupid – at least when it comes to that particular arena.

I say it all the time, I come from the sports world, so quite often I find the portrayal of sports in movies beyond laughable. They have to create scenes for people who don't know the nuances of a given sport, so everything gets dumbed down. Thus, a great pitcher naturally strikes out every batter. A great football player can't be tackled. A great basketball player only throws down monster dunks.

On top of that, you have actors who clearly have never played the game pretending to be top athletes in that sport (e.g. Wesley Snipes in both Major League and White Men Can't Jump).

In fact, whenever the baseball fan in me sees Tim Robbins' 50 mph fastball in Bull Durham or Tom Berenger's awful hack of a swing in Major League – films that I otherwise enjoy – it makes me wonder how other movies look to aficionados of those sports, even the serious ones. e.g. how good are the rugby scenes in Invictus? How good is the hockey in Slap Shot? I don't know those sports well enough to judge but I assume the actual action looks equally awful.

I specifically watched the scene again before posting and didn't hear that, but now I understand why, it was the french version and "comps" is not really translatable, so it was skipped in french.
Well, mystery remains then...

Mike was a station in that spot and he knew it. At least he had the humility to admit it.

Ya one thing you can clearly see has changed is hand to hand fighting in films, because MMA is so huge now you can't have Jet Li come in fighting a bunch of heavy weights with silly moves that don't work in real fighting. Just 20 years ago people accepted a lot of silly stuff in fight scenes that would never fly now just because a good percentage of the viewing public actually knows about fighting. Rounders is just like fights scenes before MMA got huge, you could get by with a lot more nonsense than you could now.

It's funny cuz it's another Damon flick but I was rewatching The Bourne Identity the other day and at the time the fighting was amazing, now it just looks like silly choreographed nonsense.

This would definitely work.

I think it’s more that movies have about one line or scene to establish the greatness of a player, when that greatness is actually demonstrated in real life by small advantages over long periods of time.

I often what wonder what actual police think about cop movies or shows.

Also I'm reminded of the basketball scenes in Teen Wolf (even when Scott plays has himself and not the wolf).

At the very least they didn't go fully gaga with a straight flush over a full house (Cincinatti Kid) or Royal flush over straight flush over quads (Maverick). I give 'em credit for that.
The full house over bigger full house it at least something where we all can say "yeah...been there".

And english not being my first language (and only ever having watched Rounders in english) I have to ask the ultimate doofus question: What does "comped" mean?
Computer? Complimentary? From the commentary track on the DVD I infer it's some kind of device you pay with - but even that statement is ambiguous?

As a hockey player and fan I can assure you they are equally awful. I've never seen a scene in TV or movies anywhere about actual hockey play that wasn't hilariously bad.

Comp is short for complimentary.
Basically free food given to customers at a casino, based on past play or occasionally anticipated future play.

Thanks. I was a bit confused on the meaning. (Casinos in my area - just accross the Czech border coming from germany - always have free food/(nonalcoholic)drink)

Assume they are seven card stud?

Lowball. But other tables are playing 5 card draw and stud, too. The realistic take on California and Reno card rooms of the day (the movie was released in '74) is great nostalgia, and the main characters are true degens who play just about every game in the casino.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuqLFz5Lu1w

Cops think cop movies and shows are unrealistic. I have 2 friends who are cops. Biggest gripes, almost no cops show/movie holds a gun the way they do in real life, far less shootouts then one would think and nobody finds a bag of white powder and just tastes it hoping its cocaine and not anthrax. Finally most crimes are not solved within hours/days/a week but obviously TV needs to do that to make things work.

I'm a computer guy and anyone else that is cringes at some of the computer stuff we see but I suspend reality cause I know it's coming.

There was a noodle bar back in the Asian games area that didn't take cash. It was a funky little room that iirc didn't even take cash, just comps. That is where they were in the movie.

Once Rounders + the poker boom happened the place got all jammed up so they eventually built a bigger one off the main hallway. Thankfully the poker room cafeteria wasn't in the film so that stayed somewhat secret and survived without being too jammed up.

I always thought it was "forced rotation" and "fat Greggy"

Have you seen "Little Big League"? Aside from the premise of the film itself (12 year-old kid names himself manager of an MLB team), most of the baseball action rang true to my untrained eye. But then, there were a ton of cameos from really big names in MLB from the '90s, and a lot of the smaller roles on the Twins' baseball team were played by semi-pro or pro ballplayers who could act a little. Worth a watch, imo, if you haven't seen it.

Never saw it but I do remember it. There were several kid-friendly MLB movies that came out around that time. I didn't like the others, so I must not have given this one a chance.

I'm on that movie's IMDB page and jeez, you're not kidding about the massive number of all-star cameos. And yes, I recognize a few of those names with actual roles. Kevin Elster was part of a string of good-field, no-hit Mets shortstops. Bull Durham was actually a pretty solid player for a few years but only seems to get remembered for a key error in the 1984 postseason.

Also, I see Tim Busfield is one of the leads. He's among a handful of actors who actually has some legit baseball skills (along with Kurt Russell, Charlie Sheen and Kevin Costner). I once worked a local baseball tourney in which he was one of the better players. Sure, he was barely above the minimum age of 35, but he was pretty solid for a guy who never really played the game at a high level. Definitely surprised people, since he was so well-known for playing nerds on the screen.

EDIT: I just now noticed that Elster was still playing when he did that movie, although it was during a span when he had dropped back down to the minors. I wonder if the Mets figured "this guy is done, let's let him do a movie."

I just watched Rounders for the millionth time yesterday and this scene has always bothered me. But it's not so much that Chan folds getting good odds,
cause Chan could have been making a move with no-pair and no-draw which would make his fold correct. It's the fact that a supposed great and knowledgeable player like Mike McDee would sit in a limit game with ONLY 10BB's. And not just any limit game, but a 300/600 limit game with Johnny F'ing Chan. All the other bs in the movie I can let slide, but this one is just too absurd.