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10-07-2005, 04:31 PM
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\"Two For the Money\"
Took in the matinee today and boy did this movie blow. Walked out close to the end (I guess). Less than zero content on sports betting. Matthew McConaughey picks games staring at the morning paper lines for most of the movie. The good news is that this movie is no Rounders and nobody is going to give up poker for sportsbetting.
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#4
10-08-2005, 01:29 AM
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Re: \"Two For the Money\"
Heard an interview with McCaugghney on the Rome show. He said there are pick lines where they take a percentage of your winnings. Dont think this is true, how would they ever know how much you bet. Anyway he sounded like a moron and the movie sounded pretty dumb.
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#5
10-09-2005, 02:19 PM
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Re: \"Two For the Money\"
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Heard an interview with McCaugghney on the Rome show. He said there are pick lines where they take a percentage of your winnings. Dont think this is true, how would they ever know how much you bet. Anyway he sounded like a moron and the movie sounded pretty dumb. [/ QUOTE ] Huh? What do you mean "how would they ever know how much you bet?" Who are they, the bookies? The bookies kinda have to know how much you bet... otherwise the bet is kinda shady isn't it? And for the line picks Matt McC is right from the way you listed it. You bet 100 bucks and lose, its gone. You bet 100 bucks and win, you'll get typically 190 back. Its their rake.
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10-09-2005, 02:34 PM
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Re: \"Two For the Money\"
[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ] Heard an interview with McCaugghney on the Rome show. He said there are pick lines where they take a percentage of your winnings. Dont think this is true, how would they ever know how much you bet. Anyway he sounded like a moron and the movie sounded pretty dumb. [/ QUOTE ] Huh? What do you mean "how would they ever know how much you bet?" Who are they, the bookies? The bookies kinda have to know how much you bet... otherwise the bet is kinda shady isn't it? And for the line picks Matt McC is right from the way you listed it. You bet 100 bucks and lose, its gone. You bet 100 bucks and win, you'll get typically 190 back. Its their rake. [/ QUOTE ] If one of my 50-100$ players, bumps up a bet to 500$, I ask questions, to see if they are chasing and in trouble etc, usually though, they bump the bet, because of touts. I asked one of them one night, when I ran into him in a bar how it works. You call up, get your pick, tell them how much you are going to bet (usually its not a percentage) and they take your credit card info. If the bet wins, they charge your credit card, if the bet loses they dont charge you. This is why most of the touts get scam reps, becasue a lot of times, they just charge a shitload on your CC independent of whether the pick wins.
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#7
10-08-2005, 02:31 AM
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Re: \"Two For the Money\"
Well I see it for free so I think I'll check it out anyway. The only movie I've seen that wasn't worth seeing for free was Honey...Oh and Glitter.
Also, I actually liked Rounders.
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#8
10-08-2005, 02:44 AM
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Re: \"Two For the Money\"
True; what was so bad about Rounders? It wasn't a perfect reflection of the scene, to be sure, and it exaggerated, but I loved the poker content, and pretty much everything else.
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#9
10-08-2005, 03:35 AM
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Re: \"Two For the Money\"
Movie was -EV.
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#10
10-08-2005, 03:53 AM
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Re: \"Two For the Money\"
Yeah, the whole basis for the movie was supposed to be about touts and they didn't understand how they function, at least to my knowledge, maybe I'm missing how some work.
They would call Joe Sixpack. Give him a pick and tell him to bet a shitload on it, and if he won... haggle him into giving them 10%... so he could keep getting picks. And so they would talk the guys into betting way out of their league... MM would go 109 out of 112 for the weekend and they would tell the customer to up the bet... blah blah. MM would get his picks by staring at the morning paper for most of the movie. Rounders wasn't Oscar worthy, but it had quite a bit of depth of the subject of poker for the common audience, this movie didn't.
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