Poker

A Big Hand for the Little Lady (released in the UK as Big Deal at Dodge City) is a 1966 western film, made by Eden Productions Inc. and released by Warner Bros. Settlers Meredith (Henry Fonda), his staid wife Mary (Joanne Woodward), and their young son Jackie are passing through, on their way to purchase a farm near San Antonio, when a wheel on their wagon breaks. They wait at Sam’s while the local blacksmith repairs it. Just as the five richest men of the area, are settling down to play the biggest game of poker of the year. The man cannot resist it and though he is a very bad poker player, enters the game betting all the money/savings of his family. In the climax of the game he suffers a heart-attack. His wife then takes his place in the table. That’s the only way of regaining their savings. But there is a little problem. Can anybody explain her how to play poker? When the wife disappears, the husband, after watching a few hands, joins in the game, only to lose most of the family’s savings. As the wife returns, he finds that he has dealt himself a winning hand, but does not have the cash to continue. In the following argument, he crumbles, and his wife has no choice, but to continue with his hand, in order to conquer back their money, the only problem being, she can’t play poker. When Mary accumulates her sizable winnings and leaves, the game breaks up. Her determination earns her the honour of the men.

The final resolution takes place in the gambling town of Black Creek, where it is revealed that Meredith, Mary, and even their “son” are confidence tricksters and expert card sharps. Led by Ballinger and with the collusion of Scully, they committed a scam on the five poker players, who had defraud the banker in a real estate deal sixteen years ago. “Mary” is actually Ballinger’s girlfriend Ruby. She had promised him she would give up gambling after the caper, but it is clear that she had no such intention, when she sits down to a no-limit poker game.

Casino is an Academy Award nominated 1995 crime drama film directed by Martin Scorsese. It is based on the book of the same name by Nicholas Pileggi and Larry Shandling. Robert De Niro stars as Sam “Ace” Rothstein, a chain-smoking top gambling handicapper who is called by the colloquial to look after his day-to-day operations at the fictional Tangiers Casino in Las Vegas. The story is based on Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal, who ran the Stardust, Fremont and the Hacienda casinos in Las Vegas for the Chicago Outfit from the 1970s until the early 1980s

This Martin Scorsese film illustrates the Janus -like quality of Las Vegas–it has a showiness, glamorous face, as well as a mercilessly frank one. Ace Rothstein and Nicky Santoro, gangsters who came to Las Vegas to make their lasting effect, live and work in this improbable world. Seen through their eyes, each as a foil to the other, the details of mob involvement in the casinos of the 1970’s and ’80’s are disclosed. Ace is the effective controller of the Tangiers casino, while Nicky is his boyhood friend and tough strongman, robbing and shaking down the locals. However, they each have a fallacy–Ace falls in love with a hustler, Ginger, and Nicky falls into lust of drugs and violence. Ace Rothstein aspires a civilized lifestyle with his money-conditional wife, Ginger.But Nicky Santoro, a boyhood friend of Ace and now a Made-Man of the Mafia, reaches in town with an ambitious agenda of his own that soon upsets Ace’s life. Before long, Ginger and her long-time leeching lover Lester, along with Nicky’s mistakes, causing problems. In the end Sam is seen in San Diego, making bets for the mob and watching sporting events on multiple televisions. Sam notes that he ended up right back where he started before taking over the Tangiers, picking winners and making money for the bosses back home.

Basically 21 is the major film regarding gambling. In this film we have Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent, student at M.I.T. in Boston who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine with the desire to become a doctor, Ben learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the four to five years of school since he comes from a poor, working-class background. He’s extremely gifted by god with numbers. So, when his Professor Micky Rosa notices his excellent brain in numbers, he invited him to Blackjack team to go Vegas and play 21.

But there is a way to beat the game apparently by counting cards. Intriged by the desire to make money, Ben joins his new friends on secret weekend trips to Las Vegas where, using their skills of code talk and hand signals, they have Ben make hundreds of thousands of dollars in winning blackjack at casino after casino. Ben only wants to make enough money for the tuition to Harvard and then back out. But as fellow card counter, Jill Taylor, predicts, Ben becomes corrupted by greed and his arrogance at winning which lets his feelings get in the way, and it also puts Professor Rosa, as well as the group, on the radar of a brutal casino security enforcer, named Cole Williams, who holds a personal grudge of some kind against Rosa which threatens to undo everything the students have learned and earned.

It is decent in itself as most of its part keep your attention as it includes young students. But there are some mistakes created in the movie like in Vegas Blackjack team has to be restricted to be live together although they shopped together as well.