Poker in the movie "Rounders"
Below are two of quotations taken from the poker movie Rounders. Rounders is a movie starring Matt Damon and Ed Norton as friends. Matt Damon is a good poker player who vowed never to play again and entered law school instead. But Matt finds himself playing poker again for his friend Norton because Norton is in a deep gambling debt.
The first and most famous quotation in the movie Rounders is "In The Game Of Life... Play The Cards You're Dealt" . This means that you should be able to deal with your resources instead of constantly wishing that you have better ones. This teaches a good lesson in poker in which a good poker player must know how to play his cards well even if they are not the best. This is a lesson for those people who continue to blame the heavens for their bad life, and for poker players who blame it on luck if they were not winning. This quotation tells us to be thankful of what we have and make the most out of it. This is because there is no use blaming the dealer. This is because you still have to play the cards in your hand, you'll just waste your energy whining about them. As a poker player, you must make your cards win, whatever they are, not the other way around. You could not forever pray for good cards and expect your cards to win poker games for you.
"Trust everyone... but always cut the cards" is another quotation which Rounders is famous for. This is a funny one compared to the first quotation. In poker, you usually play with stakes. When money is involved, people can transform from very kind to very devious. Be careful playing with strangers, even with your friends, you will never know for sure if they want the money so badly that they will cheat you. At the poker table, it is you against other, so you have the right to think only of yourself. Others may think of you as a paranoid poker player. But wouldn't you want to be a paranoid poker player than a sorry one? Poker can bring the best and the worst of people, so it is not enough to prepare yourself for the best, but also expect the worst. You must know by now that poker can bring out a person's true colors, and it really does. That is why there are cheaters in poker. |
