The movie ended with Mike headed to play at the WSOP and left millions of fans asking the question, whatever happened to him there? While Mike’s incredible poker skills are getting him paid in these soft games, his friend’s addictive personality and willingness to step outside the rules often get the pair into trouble.īy the time it’s all said and done, Mike manages to defeat his arch nemesis ( Teddy KGB), get the bankroll he needs for Las Vegas, and lose the love of his life in the process.
Rounders took us into the world of underground poker games in New York, showing both the good and the bad side of things. However, as the game of poker received international fame in the early 2000s, Rounders grew into a cult movie, with millions of poker fans watching it again and again.Īt the time, it was so easy for all the new poker players dreaming of poker fame to relate to the characters of Rounders, even if their story was not quite the same. The movie was released in 1998, before the Poker Boom, and was not incredibly successful right off the bat. Featuring Matt Damon in the lead role, “Rounders” is the most popular poker movie of all time, and by quite some margin.
