Big Brother Mentor: When Mike loses his bankroll to Teddy KGB at the start of the film, Knish sets him up with a part-time job to help make ends meet, tries to school Mike on how to set himself up to get by in life, and essentially how not to gamble with more than he can afford to lose.Big Applesauce: New York City is apparently full of underground poker games, legal and illegal.Can Mike help out his oldest friend without getting drawn back into the life? Or will the thrill of the game beat out his attempt to go straight? Now a talented law student, he seeks to improve his lot in life without going back to his gambling days-but then his childhood friend Worm shows up, owing a substantial debt and asking Mike to help him out. Mike McDermott once had dreams of winning the World Series of Poker, but instead lost spectacularly while trying to raise the funds he needed to travel to Las Vegas.

This movie has become a cult classic, especially because of the current popularity of Texas Hold 'Em-style poker. Rounders (1998) is about the underground world of poker in New York City starring Matt Damon as Mike McDermott, Edward Norton as Worm, and John Malkovich as Russian gangster Teddy KGB. If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker.'