Turturro's character is the true hero of the movie.Grinding it out year after year with his only skill set just to feed his family.

Even more fail! You edit the reply that mentions the mistake, but don't edit the post that contains the original mistake. Triple fail!

There actually IS a way to beat roulette. Can you guess how?

Because one of our two major political parties is deeply dysfunctional. They've also had the benefit over the last thirty years of training their base to accept whatever they say unquestioningly and now have a 24 hour propaganda channel crafting a false reality for them.

I almost never 'like', but that deserves more than just the one.

Ha! Beat you to it!

Recent AMA goodness:
Brooks Brothers store head tailor
The return of Gillian Jacobs
Various WalMart employees
George Pelecanos, writer/producer for the Wire/Treme

It's actually the least skillful. Math is easier, less information, etc. But it's fast, and no limit HE has big, dramatic swings inherent in it. It was actually dying out in the casinos in the mid-90's, until it got picked for the first televised poker games with 'hole cameras'. Why'd it get picked? Probably because…

Thank you for defending Seidel's play. He did nothing wrong, it was just a bad deal for him. Some more background on that hand: Top pair on a raggy board heads up is a monster hand. Also, Seidel was already short stacked and pot committed by the turn. He knew something was up by then, but he was stuck. He even says…

In Casino Royale, they were playing for 100 million buy in, not 10.

That's the rationale in the voice over narration, but it's still stupid. With an obvious tell like that, you could slowly bleed him dry over weeks or months. Not the one time hit and run that Matt Damon pulls.

Or baccarat, which ONLY ever pops up in movies for people to make fun of and complain that they don't know how to play. Paradoxically, it's also used as a lazy shorthand to show a character is "classy".

You also failed to simply go in and edit it, instead of drawing even more attention to it. Double fail.

I lurked two plus two for years, finally coming out to post about how awful the Casino Royale poker is. I'll never tire of flogging that dead horse.

Losing his "best friend" was a very good thing for his health. And he never did have sex with Famke. He kept shooting her down.
But yeah, it's not a ra ra happy ending. He's basically succumbing to an addiction.

CULPRIT(S) SPOILER My only problem with the resolution was that I didn't believe the motive. Is trying to keep people from finding out that you were sexually abused really enough motivation to blow up a bus full of kids? And if you're the type of person for which it is enough, shouldn't you be giving off all sorts of…

No, he built a crude flux capicitor in a few weeks, months, whatever, and took it the future, where he built the train in no time.
When he finally gets around to dropping in on Marty, it's obvious that they've been tooling around on the flying train for quite a while.

I'd be willing to sit through a musical on one condition: they fix the Marty McFly character so that's he's not such a whiny moron. Three movies in, and you still can't figure out 4th dimensional thinking? It's not that hard. And why, with between 30 and 100 years of technological advantage at your disposal, you still…

Aw, shucks. I was hoping that she had quietly retired from "acting". Can't wait to see her weird, oddly spaced and beady eyes on billboards this summer.

Yeah, I've been unnerved by Egoyan's last couple of outings. With Chloe and Where the Truth Lies, he's wandered quite a bit down the Brian De Palma women-are-devious-bitches-and-I-can't-wait-to-hurt-them road.