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[Goldeneye]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0419909/

This is a movie i recommend, i just watched and really remaind very impressed by it.
A must see movie by all blackjack players.

Tell me what you think???

[zengrifter]

The Last Casino

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From Wikipedia -

The Last Casino is a 2004 Canadian film on the subject of card counting. This movie draws heavily from the ideas espoused in the books by the guys from the story that got made into the movie 21.

Mathematics professor Doug Barnes has big problems. He is seriously addicted to gambling, and is heavily in debt to a vicious gangster (the Usurer). Barnes has been banned from his local casino, and the Usurer wants his money back. Barnes has only one card left up his sleeve . . .

Treatment

Professor Barnes is paid an unexpected call at his university office by the Usurer. Barnes explains he has had a bad patch; but the Usurer wants his money. Barnes quickly comes up with the idea of forming "a team" of card counters, telling the Usurer "It's the only way you'll get your money back". At this, the Usurer snips the tip off the professor's little finger as a warning to pay the debt; but tells him he will consider the proposal. Barnes goes ahead and recruits three of the brightest, if mostly impoverished students from the university, luring them in with the promise of $1,000 per night each for "doing a little math". He then goes ahead and teaches them the art of card counting. Whilst initially highly successful, the three of them soon begin to succumb to the tempation easy money presents, and the pressure is soon on them to raise the money necessary to pay the professor's debts.

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[sagefr0g]

thank you Zen and GoldenEye. EXCELLENT movie!
am enjoying it emmensly after the big dissapointment that the movie 21 was.
can't say enough good about this one so far....... i'm in the middle of it but had to break and put in my two cents worth.
so far real points about card counting made. real life like people with all the comedy of errors and the real sort of things we face. love it so far!

[Goldeneye]

I like it when they were into that big game and had the chinese boy play and all 3 of them were telling at the same time what to do next just like the bs. Funny scene

[la_dee_daa]

Originally Posted by Goldeneye

I like it when they were into that big game and had the chinese boy play and all 3 of them were telling at the same time what to do next just like the bs. Funny scene

that was a good sceen. i loved how they got out of the place it quite funny.

good movie.. and in Canada

[nightspirit]

Originally Posted by mdlbj

It sucked.

Yeah, only watched the 1st part. The guy was hitting his hard 19 then splitting 10's vs. 10 (incl. doubling his soft 21) the next round...

[RenoRenagade]

not a bad movie .

Havent seen 21 yet so have nothing to compare it to .

Anyone one know of any other blackjack movies like this ?

[sagefr0g]

Originally Posted by nightspirit

Yeah, only watched the 1st part. The guy was hitting his hard 19 then splitting 10's vs. 10 (incl. doubling his soft 21) the next round...

yeah i noticed that one also. but with all those low cards i'm thinkin well he pulled a cover play to throw the survelance he was getting. and i just thought it was like they were tryiing to show where he's looking at the discards and shoe like you could imagine he's figuring the true count. had a realistic flare in that regard.
well you should have watched the whole flic it was good.

[nightspirit]

Originally Posted by sagefr0g

yeah i noticed that one also. but with all those low cards i'm thinkin well he pulled a cover play to throw the survelance he was getting. and i just thought it was like they were tryiing to show where he's looking at the discards and shoe like you could imagine he's figuring the true count. had a realistic flare in that regard.
well you should have watched the whole flic it was good.

Pulling of such 'cover' plays with table max out is quite simply disastrous, I think you will agree here. EV-tables of Cacarulo I just don't understand why people when producing such movies have a bit more approach to the accuracy about the subject??
Budget of the movie: $5000000 CAD, price of a good blackjack book ~$25.
Never mind, maybe I will watch the other parts later, though I think there will be some more discrepancies...

[sagefr0g]

Originally Posted by nightspirit

Pulling of such 'cover' plays with table max out is quite simply disastrous, I think you will agree here. EV-tables of Cacarulo I just don't understand why people when producing such movies have a bit more approach to the accuracy about the subject??
Budget of the movie: $5000000 CAD, price of a good blackjack book ~$25.
Never mind, maybe I will watch the other parts later, though I think there will be some more discrepancies...

ok well i didn't realize he had the table max out on the hard 19. lol can't disagree with you there is he did. i mean the movie was pretty far out there in a lot of regards. but the overall 'feel' of the movie was to me pretty much like the ways i've fealt trying to do this stuff.
but anyway if you thought the first two frames were bad just wait to you see them pulling the martingale. and then this funky bad guy that's in it. lol . still i could much more relate to this flic than the movie 21 .