Rounders Question - Just watched it again...

[ZeeJustin]

This is not the only example of horrendous play in Rounders.
Blinds 25/50. Open raise to 1000, reraise to 5000, all-in for 10,000. Fold despite 3-1 pot odds.

[DoggSnott]

It's a fictional show dickhead!

[Jerrod Ankenman]

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With 10 bets in the pot you'd play on with A6o against AA?

PairTheBoard

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Well, okay, I overstated it. It would probably take, um, 15 bets or so.

Jerrod

[johnny caravan]

As someone whose seen Rounders a bunch of times, I started to notice other inconsistencies that make no sense to your thinking poker player.

First of all, Mike is the consumate grinder. Yet he loses every cent he has (30K) in one game.
Even the most risky gamblers wouldn't risk every dollar they had in one game. Why didn't he buy in for 25K, that was the minimum buy in?

Also, when Mike's playing against the Policemen, they're playing 10-20 stud with a $1000 buy in, but after just a few hours, he's up $4400! That's one heck of a night. How someone can win 50 big bets an hour is pretty amazing.

[astroglide]

i'm pretty sure it was 20/40 stud. he put up his whole roll because he outplayed chan in limit :|

[Skyler]

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Also, when Mike's playing against the Policemen, they're playing 10-20 stud with a $1000 buy in, but after just a few hours, he's up $4400! That's one heck of a night. How someone can win 50 big bets an hour is pretty amazing.

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That would be the excitement fantasy for the non-poker playing folks at home. I mean, in the real poker world, 1BB an hour is exciting. In the non-real poker world (especially back when Rounders was made--no mainstream televised events for people to reference, remember?) you gotta be a Colossus to impress the viewing public. [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]