Fantastic!

Absolutely the worst movie.

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Firstly, all the good reviews here, you know the 10/10ers are written by reviewers who have only one movie reviewed. A sure sign of something wrong - pure flack.This isn't horrible: but it really is a waste. The acting above all stinks...The writing is fine except when you really want it to be original it is horribly clichédThe film is horribly slushy. And the hospital subplot is entirely unnecessary.If I ever meet the person responsible for the music I will definitely be asking for my money back; just intrusive, inappropriate and all round yucky...It would have been so much better to concentrate on the classroom and the poker room. It has a good premise and ruins it by turning it into a soppy soap opera...Looks and feels like a made for TV special in every respect. Watchable, barely.

This was by far the worst film I have ever seen in my entire life. The plot was absolutely ridiculous. The idea of making money off of poker was somehow sprung upon the audience with very little coherent reasoning or explanation ("Oh you're sort of good at poker based on the one hand that you won when we were drinking and playing strip-poker, so let's pay off hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of debts with our combined pseudo-talents! YAY!"). Absolutely everything about this film was awful. The script, the acting, and the photography were nothing short of laughable. I wouldn't normally post a comment at all on a film so terrible, but, somehow, this film managed to be so particularly horrendous that it was thought provoking in itself.

Oh for God's sake. How could anyone seriously give this piece of trash anything higher than a 1? Someone is seriously messing with us on these rave reviews. The story is unbelievable, cartoonish, silly and not the least bit interesting.The acting? It's embarrassing. Louis Gosset Jr totally pimped himself out to this crapstravaganza, and Madsen was more convincing in the lame love.com. Of course, these two out acted the entire rest of the cast; most of whom had better save up their money while they still have looks.Dominique Swain? Nothing. No talent whatsoever. Shameful that this person has ever been cast in a movie.This may be the very worst movie I have ever seen in my life. I can't think of enough ways to say how badly I hated it. There was nothing good in it at all; not one single minute of it. What complete absolute garbage! I can't believe this even got made! Do NOT waste your time on this ridiculous crap. It's not even "so bad it's good." It's just so bad it's bad.

I recommend this movie to anyone that enjoyed the movie of the week about the alcoholic mother or the secretly bulimic high school girl. I kept looking for the Lifetime logo on the bottom corner of the screen. I'm with the other guy that thinks all the other voters are crazy. I am almost positive that these people were part of the production and really hoped that IMDb readers would watch the movie. I watched this on The Movie Channel last night. There is no way this played in any theater. The only thing cheesier than this movie is the set (Hollywood Park Casino). This is Madsen's second bad poker movie, I believe. He was in Tilt as well on ESPN, I think. I welcome any comments to the contrary. Poker player? Med student? Who cares?