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Lawrence Bourne III escapes the bookies to whom he owes $28,000 by swapping places with a friend and going to Thailand with the Peace Corps.

The Kid thinks he's the best 5-card stud player in town, but The Man has never been beaten. It is therefore inevitable that they go head-on, and what a game it will be: a non-stop, stud poker duel-to-the-death to decide who will be the reigning king of the New Orleans gambling world.

A young man is a reformed gambler who must return to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks.

A gentleman-gambler falls in love with a missionary, while a floating crap-game operator avoids marriage to his long-time fiancee.

The true story of Molly Bloom, an Olympic-class skier who ran the world's most exclusive high-stakes poker game and became an FBI target.

"The Color of Money" is a decades-later sequel to "The Hustler." 25 years on, Fast Eddie is now a nattily dressed, silver-haired liquor salesman working the Midwest in his white Cadillac. His neat mustache and smiling deviltry are also employed in his other profession--stake horse to up and coming pool hustlers. One night he sees a kid playing who is so good that Eddie's laboriously buried memories are stirred. Vincent and his girlfriend Carmen have...

Follow detective Benny Chan, in this action-packed comedy, as he tries to avenge the death of his late partner. Freewheeling American gambler Connor has the evidence Benny needs in order to get justice. Benny and Connor must survive the fight of their lives!

"In April of 1996, seven lifetime winners in the casino industry gathered to tell their stories and talk about their industry. John Ascuaga, Bill Boyd, Don Carano, Jackie Gaughan, Warren Nelson, Phil Satre, and Claudine Williams represent nearly 250 years of Nevada Gaming experience ... The gamblers share experiences as business leaders, discuss the mob in Nevada gambling, debate the pros and cons of family-owned vs. corporate gaming, and consider...