Hollay
07-13-2005, 02:36 PM
Grab a cup o' joe and settle in to read and vote for this week's Write to Win finalists.
As always, the player's whose article gets the most votes will snag an HP tournament ticket and a random voter will score HP gear. :waytogo:
This week's topic was: Poker Movies!
Submission #1:
Most people are going to say Rounders. Of course, I love that movie but my favorite poker player to emulate would be Doc Holiday in Tombstone. Val Kilmer does a great job portraying him. Wouldn't that be the life? Drinking, smoking, gambling, and womanizing. I know it’s not a poker movie but it is poker related. I'm sure you can concur with me that you would give up your nine to five job to be in the old west and live like Doc.
Submission #2
I'm sure all of your readers will agree that Rounders or The Cincinnatti Kid are the greatest poker movies of all time.
I would like to take these few paragraphs to discuss a poker classic that I thought was worse than going all-in with pocket aces only to get sucked out by runner on 4th and the river. The movie Maverick, starring Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, and James Garner had to be the worst poker movie ever.
It is set in the wild west, year unknown, where the hero, Mel Gibson - constantly running away from the law. James Garner is trying to reach the location of a winner take all 5 card draw poker game aboard a Mississippi Riverboat - buy-in $10,000. Gibson is constantly cracking awful one-line jokes and attempting ultra-non-realistic (is that a word?) fight scenes with hoodlums and Indians that throw phantom punches in his direction. Of course, Gibson defeats his foes, gathering the buy-in along the way where he is also met by Mrs. Annabelle Bransford, who is also on her way to the mega-game. WWE superstar Hulk Hogan could render a better southern accent than the Jodie Foster spoke in this flick: "What ‘cha gonna do when, golly, Hulk Hogan runs wild all over you, brother, ya' hear.”
Okay, so Jodie Foster is a little bit of eye-candy in this flick, nice body, easy on the eyes to look at. I'm sure some fellow Hollywood Poker players have the "hots" for her, or at least have fantasized about her naked in a tub. I admit that I do - sorry Julie, even her portrayal of Agent Starling in Silence of the Lambs - she would taste better than the brains Hannibal devoured. But that accent just killed it for me, the entire movie I just wanted her to shut her face! So Bransford and Maverick end up at the final table in this unrealistic poker game, with Maverick dodging bullets and flushes to win the entire tournament. Of course, he has magical powers to mind meld an ace of spades to the top of the deck, he draws one card and boom! - there's the ace of spades to give him a royal flush and win - very predictable. But back to Jodie Foster, I can just picture her naked in front of her computer logged into Hollywood Poker with pocket aces and 9 other Hollywood poker players with "something else in their pockets." Again, Julie, I apologize.
Do not ever watch this movie. If you have to, just turn the sound off and watch Jodie Foster!
As always, the player's whose article gets the most votes will snag an HP tournament ticket and a random voter will score HP gear. :waytogo:
This week's topic was: Poker Movies!
Submission #1:
Most people are going to say Rounders. Of course, I love that movie but my favorite poker player to emulate would be Doc Holiday in Tombstone. Val Kilmer does a great job portraying him. Wouldn't that be the life? Drinking, smoking, gambling, and womanizing. I know it’s not a poker movie but it is poker related. I'm sure you can concur with me that you would give up your nine to five job to be in the old west and live like Doc.
Submission #2
I'm sure all of your readers will agree that Rounders or The Cincinnatti Kid are the greatest poker movies of all time.
I would like to take these few paragraphs to discuss a poker classic that I thought was worse than going all-in with pocket aces only to get sucked out by runner on 4th and the river. The movie Maverick, starring Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, and James Garner had to be the worst poker movie ever.
It is set in the wild west, year unknown, where the hero, Mel Gibson - constantly running away from the law. James Garner is trying to reach the location of a winner take all 5 card draw poker game aboard a Mississippi Riverboat - buy-in $10,000. Gibson is constantly cracking awful one-line jokes and attempting ultra-non-realistic (is that a word?) fight scenes with hoodlums and Indians that throw phantom punches in his direction. Of course, Gibson defeats his foes, gathering the buy-in along the way where he is also met by Mrs. Annabelle Bransford, who is also on her way to the mega-game. WWE superstar Hulk Hogan could render a better southern accent than the Jodie Foster spoke in this flick: "What ‘cha gonna do when, golly, Hulk Hogan runs wild all over you, brother, ya' hear.”
Okay, so Jodie Foster is a little bit of eye-candy in this flick, nice body, easy on the eyes to look at. I'm sure some fellow Hollywood Poker players have the "hots" for her, or at least have fantasized about her naked in a tub. I admit that I do - sorry Julie, even her portrayal of Agent Starling in Silence of the Lambs - she would taste better than the brains Hannibal devoured. But that accent just killed it for me, the entire movie I just wanted her to shut her face! So Bransford and Maverick end up at the final table in this unrealistic poker game, with Maverick dodging bullets and flushes to win the entire tournament. Of course, he has magical powers to mind meld an ace of spades to the top of the deck, he draws one card and boom! - there's the ace of spades to give him a royal flush and win - very predictable. But back to Jodie Foster, I can just picture her naked in front of her computer logged into Hollywood Poker with pocket aces and 9 other Hollywood poker players with "something else in their pockets." Again, Julie, I apologize.
Do not ever watch this movie. If you have to, just turn the sound off and watch Jodie Foster!