Horrible accent, but Malkovich is the character. Pet theory of mine- he is a Russian immigrant, but speaks perfect English, puts on this persona to intimidate and distract.
Good movie, but I feel it enables poker addiction. This is the story running in the back of every player's mind, just need one more hand and you too can sit down and beat Johnny C or a mafia bruiser.
@@andrewshouse9840 I heard a great review of the movie saying he won as soon as he was told to pursue his destiny by the professor. The 10 grand he was given and winning against KGB was just all part of the plan.
Sure…like a lot of people “don’t know” shit Trump says all the time. A lot of people don’t realize KGB is played by the same guy in “Being John Malkovich” years later.
Absolutely. I’m sure these guys had never had any real poker experience prior to shooting this film. So obviously, there was a tremendous amount of coaching from the pros. The acting, the facial expressions, the table presence, all the optics are what we would see in actual pro games.
@@why-even-try-brotendo I’ve seen some wise guys do it before, but I honestly don’t see the point cause it’s genuinely just a race between who hits and who doesn’t
rounders is about good bankrollmanagement: first he loses all his roll on a cooler and is broke because of bad money management. then he gets into a whole lot of trouble and has to play heads up with the villain for his life. he wins and is free to go. but then he gets provoked and playes another round for his life. he learned his lesson :) OG, original gambler. love it!
Mike is the very definition of how NOT to play poker in this movie. Knish is the real hero here: a grinder, not some hero WSP wannabe who takes huge chances all the time. They should make a sequel called "Grinders" starring John Turturro as Knish again lol.
Justin Gomez Yup, exactly like I was thinking. It's why Ivey's never won a bracelet; he has to wade through a swamp of donks to even get relatively deep in the tournament. Any idiot can take a world champ out in a tournament, which is why I prefer cash games.
joydivsion77 I do definitely agree with you but Ivey has won many bracelets, unless you meant the Main Event then you're absolutely right. It's full of so many donks the top pros really struggle to make their way through so many terrible players sucking out on them.
I still hope to play in a bracelet event in some WSOP in the future and if, and that's HUUUUGE if LOL, I won then and only then would I play the Main Event.
Justin Gomez Yes, I was referring to the Main Event specifically. I really wish it was invitation only (I think it was like that in the '70's). If you are a rich sob and play tennis, you can't just enter Wimbledon because you have money; only the top 120 players IN THE WORLD get in. It should be the same in poker, go with a ranking system that starts just after WSOP and ends just before. Take maybe the first 1000 on the list and it would make the tourney so much more entertaining.
My wife is Russian and I made her watch this movie with me, knowing Teddy’s accent was just godawful. Of course she just rolled her eyes during all his scenes, but now I get to talk to her in Teddy’s accent and she knows where it comes from. My favorite lines are, “very ah-grey-ess-eeve” and “Mr. Son of a beetch, let’s play sahm cardz.” Of, and of course, “pyay heem, pyay dat man heez myanee.”
Malkovich usually never does accents in his movies when playing historical/foreign characters. He usually sticks to his American accent. I wonder what made him change his ways in this movie. But KGB is sure as hell a character to remember.
Best acting by Malkovich in the movie at :40 seconds when Damon goes all in. He says nothing but his face says it all, has an awwwwwwww shit I just got fucked look. Notice the slight nervous tweek of his cheek at :50 seconds. Great stuff. Taaaaaaaake eeeet down......
Justin Bridges Good h'and, cetching thèt jack on the turran, you got lucky there. Zo, thèt's it then, hm? Jast laik a yang màn caming in for a qvikie. I.. feel.. so unsjiètisfied. You must feel proud and good, strong enough to beat the world!
Really? If you have a good read on an opponent and you understand their game you might consider it. Mike couldn't call. It was either raise all in or fold.
More like a crushingly good read. Players will think they're good with QQ, JJ, or AK. So if you read them for a 'good' hand and fold you are losing way more value than you're gaining.
@@DixiePokerAce First, you never fold KK heads up. There is a 0.5% chance you are behind and even if you are you still have a 20% chance to win the hand. If you're the kind of guy that throws away $1000 with those odds then poker is not the game for you. Second, Mike can flat call here and really take KGB to the cleaners on later streets by disguising the strength of his hand. Since almost everybody expects Mike to jam all-in here with KK they will eliminate that hand from his range and they will likely stack off to him if they hit a pair of Jacks or Queens or even Kings.
@@connman8d617 for 10 grand, if I know my opponent has AA I can easily lay it down. It isn't something I would do often but if I played against someone over a long period of time and I was sure they had AA, I could make the fold. If I am going to put 10 grand in the middle I would like to have the best hand. A 1 in 5 shot isn't going to cut it. I play a lot of poker for a decent amount of money but I don't usually go all in preflop unless it is absolutely neccessary.
@@DixiePokerAce okay. Let me put this another way. If somebody is so tight that their 3 bet range heads up includes AA and only AA then they are the nittiest nit that ever lived and you will destroy them long term by aggressing into them and folding any time they push back. But since those players would lose such a ridiculous amount of money playing heads up you would never encounter one heads up. So your "strategy" of folding KK heads up is about as useful as having a plan for what to do in case of a yeti bite.
They still should have gone after Worm! Even after Mike “cleared” the debt. Seems like a hurt to their street cred if all you have to do to get out of debt is to point to another guy and go “he’s good for my fuck up” and then run
Malkovich great range, what an actor. He plays a Russian Mob guy perfectly! By the way P*tin needs to play Russian Roulette with his band of thieves and killers.
So, let me get this straight. After Mike re raises and goes all in KGB has to put in 5 grand to try and win 15 grand. So his pot odds are 3 to 1. How could he possibly fold? Hollywood I guess...
Head's up is a way different world. If he had pocket As, he's calling a shove pre-flop. No question there. But his re-raise is representing and he's likely working with an ace, probably ace-face. I don't see him folding on AK in head's up, either, so more likely it's AQ or AJ. Also possible he could have a mid pair, but if it isn't ace-face then it's more likely the other end, A5 or A4. Either way, he knew with the almost immediate shove that he ran into a high pair, and folded.
I don’t understand why Grama wanted Mike to lose after continuing to play. If Mike lost it all back, he wouldn’t be able to pay Grama what he owed. And Grama would have to kill him.
The point is the first time he wanted to earn more money for vegas. The second time he owed KGB a lot of money and paid that off, then had the 30k over. But I see your point as well.
I’ve played lots of cards, poker pitch. It all boils down to, where’s that one card that makes or breaks your hand. Is it out or still in the deck? It’s all in how you play that one card.
"He beat me. Straight up. Pay him. Pay that man his money." My favorite role by John Malkovich playing "K.G.B" -- an endearingly honest, Russian-mob-connected owner of an underground poker den, that figures in the movie's opening and closing scenes. I think it's my favorite starring role by Matt Damon -- as "Mike McDermott" -- a young master card player who initially trades the rounds of poker playing for a New York City law school. Also my favorite role by Edward Norton as Mike's incorrigible (just-out-of-prison) inveterate gambling addicted friend -- risking life and limb, cheating at cards. Okay, one more favorite -- John Turturro: terrific, in a supporting role (his best, I think). A 23 year old movie I didn't see for the first time until 2015! And there it was 'for rent' on cable: Was it really that good, I wondered? I had such fond memories about it -- especially the ending. I couldn't recall the exact details but I know the resolution was so plausible and made me feel good. Mike's former girlfriend, a pretty blonde law student, says at the end: "Call me sometime . . . if you need a lawyer." Matt Damon's character: "I will. And I will!" Last scene, in the back of a cab: "Take me to Kennedy Airport". The driver: "Where are you headed?" "Las Vegas." "Good luck, man." And we hear young Mike McDermott thinking out loud: "First prize to the winner of the world poker championship is a million bucks. Does it have my name on it? I don't know, but I'm going to find out." Thanks for sharing TheBmat. Celebrated at Sinatra Family Forum - "My Favorite Things" - What's in your DVD player? What are you watching? sinatrafamily.com/forum/showthread.php/21618-What-Is-On-Your-DVD-Player-What-Are-You-Watching-Now/page502
This was a good move regardless if take KGB called. If he called you would have been 1 on 1 up against pocket kings which the way I see it has 2 out of 3 ways of winning. Yeah only 3 things can happen to that board. The Boer doesn't produce any cards that help the two players Or the 2nd thing I can happen he ends up getting 2 pair or 3 of a kind are flopping a full house or even quads with his king's. The 3rd situation is Teddy KGB hits his cards really well and it beats the pocket kings. So yeah in a 1 on 1 situation going all in with pocket kings if he doesn't have aces you ever I would say a 66% chance of winning.
Preflop KK wins 82% not 66%. And that is with AA in the calculation, without it's even higher. It is the second best hand you can have. There's a 0% chance you fold in this situation.
Well he tells the story to john tururro that he when he was in atlantic city, johnny chan was at the table playing......so he sat down...played one hand and actually beat him. This is what gave him the mentality that if he could be a poker great like chan on one hand, he could beat anybody. SO, he took his money to KGB. So....as for him going "straight away," i dont think it would have been possible without those two event unfolding the way that they did,
Isn't this that Russian guy from "Billions", when he was younger? The voice is exactly the same, but he doesn't look the same. He's also the same character.
The way he plays kings there is what messed me up. I used to play like that with almost every hand I played. I'd try to constantly just get all my money in. Worked for a bit then lost several nights in a row.
0:39 actually you could call. true he will outflop you with an ace maybe a fifth of the time, but if he misses he might bluff into you, and if he does have a weaker pair and catches a bunch of undercards, or catches top pair with a hand like ace jack on a jack high board, he might try and get it in not knowing you have him all but dead.
Vote up if you know what KGB is doing during he is holding the cookie not only before the flop, but on the flop and after in the movie... If you know... at least, you definitely are not a fish. ;)
Legend has it that Malkovich is still thrusting till this day
Malkovich is a complete Beast in this movie. One of the greatest actors, one of the best roles and one of the best movies ever!
This is pretty bad acting lol but very fun and entertaining and that's what's important
@@Sex-ij5ke interesting that you thought it was bad acting. I thought it was excellent. Amazing movie regardless
Rounders is a fantastic movie.
One of my favorite movies of all time.
The horrible accent is 100% genius and completely perfect for this movie somehow.
so true. nothing to do with Russian accent, but so unique at the same time
Horrible accent, but Malkovich is the character. Pet theory of mine- he is a Russian immigrant, but speaks perfect English, puts on this persona to intimidate and distract.
I read that he had a Russian lady friend and she read his lines into a tape recorder-then he listened to it and had the accent down.
It's all part of the character. A wannabe Russian badass who overdoes the accent (even though he actually is Russian).
And now that accent follows him to the showtime show Billions....classic!
Rounders is one of the most underrated movies, I think. The story and the acting is amazing
The poker is shit though
samsung a10 the poker acting is shithouse you are correct
Good movie, but I feel it enables poker addiction. This is the story running in the back of every player's mind, just need one more hand and you too can sit down and beat Johnny C or a mafia bruiser.
@@andrewshouse9840 I heard a great review of the movie saying he won as soon as he was told to pursue his destiny by the professor. The 10 grand he was given and winning against KGB was just all part of the plan.
@@andrewshouse9840 Yes, and video games enable all violence in the world too huh.
A lot of people don't realise, Grama is played by the actor who played Jackie Aprile SR in The Sopranos
No shit
everyone knows haha
Sure…like a lot of people “don’t know” shit Trump says all the time.
A lot of people don’t realize KGB is played by the same guy in “Being John Malkovich” years later.
I love how kgb starts humping the air, then matt damon laughs and looks away for a few seconds. Then he looks back, and kgb is still humping 🤣
Do that at work when you want a promotion. It works!
😂
@@TraumaER Didn't work.. I got fired. Thanks!
@@Captain_Crayzay 🤷🏼♂️
😅😂🤣😆part where KGB begins talkin smack after he lost that 1st wave of plays.
Dis son of bitch all night he...check, check, check!
Gee I wish everyone I played against had a tell with an Oreo fucking cookie!
Eats the Oreo, strong hand Not eat the Oreo, weak hand. Yeah, that's a heck of a tell.
+thowdy that wasn't it. It was if he ate the frosting side.
Tai sitten domino keksi...en tiiä sitten.. perkeles...
Just like a young man coming in for a kvickie
+Zonex123 I veel zo unzatieezfied. I feel ahkay
Its like you have to re-learn spelling to type what he is saying. He reinveented Eengleesh
KHWVIKIE!!
All night dis son of bitch, he chick chick.... HE TLAPPED ME!!
"Feel free to reload at any time..."
"N'yob twoyu mat!" :P
Matt Damon and Edward Norton are my two fave actors, add in the fact that I like to gamble and this is film is a classic for me. Love it.
I LOVE THE WAY HE SAYS "TAKE EET DOWIN"..
"You can't lose what you don't put in the middle. But you can't win much either."
That is my mantra for life.
Is it working?
As a poker player I would consider this the best poker movie ever, superb acting, awesome storyline, it has everything that makes up a good movie..
Cincinnati Kid with Steve Mcqueen is so much better
@@lcb4082 no.
Absolutely. I’m sure these guys had never had any real poker experience prior to shooting this film. So obviously, there was a tremendous amount of coaching from the pros. The acting, the facial expressions, the table presence, all the optics are what we would see in actual pro games.
Cincinnati Kid...you're good kid, but as long as I'm around, you're second best...Lancey Howard
“He’s representing Aces.”
Back in the days when a 3-bet meant that you actually had a hand lol
J Ygb Mike raised preflop, and then KGB re-raised(3-bet) to $5000.
He called a raise with Aces honey... Idiot from northern Europe "
Let's be real, no one has ever folded pocket kings preflop in heads up.
@@VLAD_P_ literally choked laughing LOL
@@why-even-try-brotendo I’ve seen some wise guys do it before, but I honestly don’t see the point cause it’s genuinely just a race between who hits and who doesn’t
rounders is about good bankrollmanagement:
first he loses all his roll on a cooler and is broke because of bad money management. then he gets into a whole lot of trouble and has to play heads up with the villain for his life. he wins and is free to go. but then he gets provoked and playes another round for his life. he learned his lesson :)
OG, original gambler. love it!
Mike is the very definition of how NOT to play poker in this movie. Knish is the real hero here: a grinder, not some hero WSP wannabe who takes huge chances all the time. They should make a sequel called "Grinders" starring John Turturro as Knish again lol.
Very true. Which is why usually the main event winners disappear never really making much noise after.
Justin Gomez Yup, exactly like I was thinking. It's why Ivey's never won a bracelet; he has to wade through a swamp of donks to even get relatively deep in the tournament. Any idiot can take a world champ out in a tournament, which is why I prefer cash games.
joydivsion77 I do definitely agree with you but Ivey has won many bracelets, unless you meant the Main Event then you're absolutely right. It's full of so many donks the top pros really struggle to make their way through so many terrible players sucking out on them.
I still hope to play in a bracelet event in some WSOP in the future and if, and that's HUUUUGE if LOL, I won then and only then would I play the Main Event.
Justin Gomez Yes, I was referring to the Main Event specifically. I really wish it was invitation only (I think it was like that in the '70's). If you are a rich sob and play tennis, you can't just enter Wimbledon because you have money; only the top 120 players IN THE WORLD get in. It should be the same in poker, go with a ranking system that starts just after WSOP and ends just before. Take maybe the first 1000 on the list and it would make the tourney so much more entertaining.
My wife is Russian and I made her watch this movie with me, knowing Teddy’s accent was just godawful. Of course she just rolled her eyes during all his scenes, but now I get to talk to her in Teddy’s accent and she knows where it comes from. My favorite lines are, “very ah-grey-ess-eeve” and “Mr. Son of a beetch, let’s play sahm cardz.” Of, and of course, “pyay heem, pyay dat man heez myanee.”
more like "pey zat mehn heez mahnee"
"its not about ego or pride"
Makes it all about ego and pride lmfao
Damon grab the chips so fast when he say take it down
Leaning over toward Teddy staring him down as he pulls the chips in.
Malkovich usually never does accents in his movies when playing historical/foreign characters. He usually sticks to his American accent. I wonder what made him change his ways in this movie. But KGB is sure as hell a character to remember.
And then he fails the beginners rule-never let emotion take over.
There is no way anybody has seen this movie more times than I have.....
The aggressive part was about to come when he trapped him with his check, check, check....
in a room full of card players John Malkovich is the only real actor here.
Next time I play poker I want a rack full of oreos that says 'don't touch.
"EETS Ah Fahking Jwyohk Enyvay"
Even thinking about folding Kings in a heads up match againts a maniac like KGB is absurd... straight up
I loved Teddy KGBs part in Billions!
yea, i hope his character comes back
"Table stakes." -Teddy KGB
“Table steaks”
Best acting by Malkovich in the movie at :40 seconds when Damon goes all in. He says nothing but his face says it all, has an awwwwwwww shit I just got fucked look. Notice the slight nervous tweek of his cheek at :50 seconds. Great stuff. Taaaaaaaake eeeet down......
Remember when worm told those dudes to cut the Sputnik? 🤣
He's representing Aces, because Teddy never 3-bets for value heads up with anything other than Aces.
This movie needed a sequel
"Knish how you doing?" ......His answer? "The same" .... I've always loved that answer. I guess the same means still a hustler, still a grinder.
Over the years this movie gets better they need to do a sequel
Malkovich was pro in this movie
He's pro in every movie lol
KK heads up? Gosh, I can't know that this was the correct decision unless I spot the perfect tell!
Vièry aggrièssive, but!
I thought he was calling for his grandma.
Grama
dude I love the way he talks, I go around quoting him in that accent all the time soo fun.. MR son of beech, lets play sam cahhds
Justin Bridges Good h'and, cetching thèt jack on the turran, you got lucky there. Zo, thèt's it then, hm? Jast laik a yang màn caming in for a qvikie. I.. feel.. so unsjiètisfied. You must feel proud and good, strong enough to beat the world!
@@0x28 "unsjietisfied" - perfect.
This guy and agent Kruger from Elysium are two best accents of all time. Also maybe Arnold in some of his movies.
@@reidkemp have you seen district 9? You’ll love his accent in that. Yao shneeky fokin prauwns, yao trrrryun tu tayk orf?
He sounds like Christoph Waltz.
if youre thinking about folding kk heads up you are doing something wrong
Really? If you have a good read on an opponent and you understand their game you might consider it. Mike couldn't call. It was either raise all in or fold.
More like a crushingly good read. Players will think they're good with QQ, JJ, or AK. So if you read them for a 'good' hand and fold you are losing way more value than you're gaining.
@@DixiePokerAce First, you never fold KK heads up. There is a 0.5% chance you are behind and even if you are you still have a 20% chance to win the hand. If you're the kind of guy that throws away $1000 with those odds then poker is not the game for you. Second, Mike can flat call here and really take KGB to the cleaners on later streets by disguising the strength of his hand. Since almost everybody expects Mike to jam all-in here with KK they will eliminate that hand from his range and they will likely stack off to him if they hit a pair of Jacks or Queens or even Kings.
@@connman8d617 for 10 grand, if I know my opponent has AA I can easily lay it down. It isn't something I would do often but if I played against someone over a long period of time and I was sure they had AA, I could make the fold. If I am going to put 10 grand in the middle I would like to have the best hand. A 1 in 5 shot isn't going to cut it. I play a lot of poker for a decent amount of money but I don't usually go all in preflop unless it is absolutely neccessary.
@@DixiePokerAce okay. Let me put this another way. If somebody is so tight that their 3 bet range heads up includes AA and only AA then they are the nittiest nit that ever lived and you will destroy them long term by aggressing into them and folding any time they push back. But since those players would lose such a ridiculous amount of money playing heads up you would never encounter one heads up. So your "strategy" of folding KK heads up is about as useful as having a plan for what to do in case of a yeti bite.
Iconic cookie
Such an awesome film and cast!
KGB let him win the first freeze out. He showed sympathy to Mike and then goaded him into staying. Always walk away when you're ahead.
I'm sure a lot of us who watch the movie have had a guy like Worm in your lives. A guy your girlfriend or wife hated.
KGB is the man
Why does he make reraising all in with KK heads up such a smart move lol, i'd do it 11 times out of 10 without hesitation
yeah.... snap shove.... dude is such a fish
Teddy KGB is awesome
Like a young man coming in for a kvickie
I can't help it. This is how I say aggressive when I say it because of this movie :)
20 big blinds - 100 big blinds - fold. LOL.
When you only have 2 players, you don't check. You either fold or all in. The moment you check, you are revealing a weakness.
😂😂🤣😂🤣 You are a very good player i thing,,how big is your bankroll?
They still should have gone after Worm! Even after Mike “cleared” the debt. Seems like a hurt to their street cred if all you have to do to get out of debt is to point to another guy and go “he’s good for my fuck up” and then run
Love Big Teddy.
John Malkovich was brilliant in this role
I'm steel ahp twenty gland from dis last time I steek it in yew.
"Von't vee pushed alound"
damn right
Malkovich great range, what an actor. He plays a Russian Mob guy perfectly! By the way P*tin needs to play Russian Roulette with his band of thieves and killers.
Double the blinds? A very calm “yeah”.
I fzeeel see oh unsyatisfee ide.
Ya feel satisfied now? 'Cause I could go on busting you up all night.
Despite all its flaws I still love this movie, especially scenes like this.
A movie doesn't need to be perfect to hit home, I just wish most people would think that way today.
love this movie
So, let me get this straight. After Mike re raises and goes all in KGB has to put in 5 grand to try and win 15 grand. So his pot odds are 3 to 1. How could he possibly fold? Hollywood I guess...
If he has an underpair, it makes sense. With QQ he would have basically two outs.
Head's up is a way different world. If he had pocket As, he's calling a shove pre-flop. No question there. But his re-raise is representing and he's likely working with an ace, probably ace-face. I don't see him folding on AK in head's up, either, so more likely it's AQ or AJ. Also possible he could have a mid pair, but if it isn't ace-face then it's more likely the other end, A5 or A4. Either way, he knew with the almost immediate shove that he ran into a high pair, and folded.
prolly a kk vs ak fold
This guy is a fish 👆
KGB was bluffing that’s why
This was great acting i love this movie fantastic
love the oreo tell.
The KBG character reminds me of some REAL Russian gangsters I met in Manhattan in the early 90s
0:42 kgb is like, this guy is fucking serious!!!!😂😂😂😂
Like a young man coming in for a quicky😄
I just realized I don't even pronounce it aggressive anymore. I always use agre-essive because of this movie.
"just like a young man come in for a quicky... feeling so un-shittisfied..." LOL.
I don’t understand why Grama wanted Mike to lose after continuing to play. If Mike lost it all back, he wouldn’t be able to pay Grama what he owed. And Grama would have to kill him.
i love this movie
String bets...string bets everywhere.
Jason McGraw small world... hope things are going good for you. Are you still working at the Embassy these days?
KGB it's amazing how big poker has become
Great movie
Nooooooooooooo Teddy...not the cookie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
love this film
Veddy Agreiyssive
The point is the first time he wanted to earn more money for vegas. The second time he owed KGB a lot of money and paid that off, then had the 30k over.
But I see your point as well.
@wiseguy1989xx I agree even late 90's early 2000's Limit was still the most widely played game...
I’ve played lots of cards, poker pitch. It all boils down to, where’s that one card that makes or breaks your hand. Is it out or still in the deck? It’s all in how you play that one card.
"He beat me. Straight up. Pay him. Pay that man his money."
My favorite role by John Malkovich playing "K.G.B" -- an endearingly honest, Russian-mob-connected owner of an underground poker den, that figures in the movie's opening and closing scenes.
I think it's my favorite starring role by Matt Damon -- as "Mike McDermott" -- a young master card player who initially trades the rounds of poker playing for a New York City law school.
Also my favorite role by Edward Norton as Mike's incorrigible (just-out-of-prison) inveterate gambling addicted friend -- risking life and limb, cheating at cards.
Okay, one more favorite -- John Turturro: terrific, in a supporting role (his best, I think).
A 23 year old movie I didn't see for the first time until 2015! And there it was 'for rent' on cable: Was it really that good, I wondered? I had such fond memories about it -- especially the ending. I couldn't recall the exact details but I know the resolution was so plausible and made me feel good.
Mike's former girlfriend, a pretty blonde law student, says at the end: "Call me sometime . . . if you need a lawyer." Matt Damon's character: "I will. And I will!"
Last scene, in the back of a cab: "Take me to Kennedy Airport". The driver: "Where are you headed?" "Las Vegas." "Good luck, man."
And we hear young Mike McDermott thinking out loud: "First prize to the winner of the world poker championship is a million bucks. Does it have my name on it? I don't know, but I'm going to find out."
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the bet sizes are awful throughout the movie but easily best movie around poker out there
It’s so mafia how he gets him to keep playing
I love that silent 'Yop Tvoyu Mat' at the end there...
@4:23
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Lol
Sounds like an accent Dee would do on its always sunny
Veree agree esive
This was a good move regardless if take KGB called. If he called you would have been 1 on 1 up against pocket kings which the way I see it has 2 out of 3 ways of winning. Yeah only 3 things can happen to that board. The Boer doesn't produce any cards that help the two players Or the 2nd thing I can happen he ends up getting 2 pair or 3 of a kind are flopping a full house or even quads with his king's. The 3rd situation is Teddy KGB hits his cards really well and it beats the pocket kings. So yeah in a 1 on 1 situation going all in with pocket kings if he doesn't have aces you ever I would say a 66% chance of winning.
Preflop KK wins 82% not 66%. And that is with AA in the calculation, without it's even higher.
It is the second best hand you can have. There's a 0% chance you fold in this situation.
Well he tells the story to john tururro that he when he was in atlantic city, johnny chan was at the table playing......so he sat down...played one hand and actually beat him. This is what gave him the mentality that if he could be a poker great like chan on one hand, he could beat anybody. SO, he took his money to KGB. So....as for him going "straight away," i dont think it would have been possible without those two event unfolding the way that they did,
Too much filosofy for KK hand preflop :)
Love it...
Isn't this that Russian guy from "Billions", when he was younger? The voice is exactly the same, but he doesn't look the same. He's also the same character.
Yup, Malcovich, and very similar stereotypical Russian character.
If folding KKs crosses ur mind while playing heads up then you need to find a new game!
You're amazing
The way he plays kings there is what messed me up. I used to play like that with almost every hand I played. I'd try to constantly just get all my money in. Worked for a bit then lost several nights in a row.
0:39 actually you could call. true he will outflop you with an ace maybe a fifth of the time, but if he misses he might bluff into you, and if he does have a weaker pair and catches a bunch of undercards, or catches top pair with a hand like ace jack on a jack high board, he might try and get it in not knowing you have him all but dead.
Couldn't it also be possible he had suited connectors and not expecting All In Raise didn't want to chance it on the first hand of the game?
@@Lord_Bibulous true, all the more reason 2 flat call. maybe he will buff shove flop with them expecting folds from a magrinal non kings strength hand
@@justiceseeker2nd963 If it was later in the game KGB might've done exactly that.
Vote up if you know what KGB is doing during he is holding the cookie not only before the flop, but on the flop and after in the movie... If you know... at least, you definitely are not a fish. ;)
What,?
KGB has Jacks.