![]() ![]() The 1998 movie Rounders, written by Brian Koppelman and David Levien and directed by John Dahl starred Matt Damon and Ed Norton, relied heavily on visual prompts. Timed to be available on September 11 th, 1998 – ye, three years exctly before the World Trade Centers were attacked in New York – the Rounders novel came out to much less fanfare. Unless you’ve read the film’s novelization, that is.Īlmost as old as the movie itself, was Kevin Canty’s creation, timed for its release to appeal to fans who had already seen the movie in cinemas an afterthought, doomed to exist in the shadows of the 1998 cinematic release or a brilliant book in its own right? And whatever happened to Mike McDermott at the end of the novel? Mike was able to walk away, and so too was the movie, goes the legend. Where Rounders is criticised is only in never coming back for more. ![]() To some extent, the film was so good that it has made any attempt to make another poker movie with different characters in look pale by comparison. For a quarter of a century, poker fans have been obsessed with the movie Rounders. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The strategies we use in Joker’s Wild and Double Joker’s Wild actually get us very close to non-wild card games in frequency of natural royal flushes - the royals with no wild cards that bring us the big-paying bonanzas. The chances of drawing a royal flush on the initial deal are 1 in 649,740 with no jokers, 1 in 717,421.25 and 1 in 790,527.5 with two.īut, of course, the initial deal isn’t the whole game. That rises to 2,869,685 if one joker is in play, and 3,162,510 with two jokers. With no jokers in the deck, there are 2,598,960 possible five-card combinations. There are differences, of course, in Joker’s Wild, with a 53-card virtual deck, and Double Joker’s Wild with a 54-card deck. That enables us to calculate odds telling us the big payoff on royal flushes occur once every 40,000 hands or so, depending on the game and our strategy. ![]() ![]() In licensed casinos, every electronic card in a 52-card electronic deck has an equal chance of appearing on every hand. Nearly all video poker games are based on five-card draw poker. ![]() |
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