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Poker historical account: Summary in the film « All In: The Poker Movie »
An all new documentary film relating the history of poker has just come out on the cinema screens. During the 11th edition of the annual festival of film in Las Vegas, held at Palms Casino Resort, at the same time of the development of the 40th edition of the World Series Of Poker (WSOP), the American director Douglas Tirola has just presented his new production, a documentary entitled “All In: The Poker Movie”. It is a film relating entire history of poker in the United States since the beginning of the year 1950’s until now. Moreover, all the ways of perception of this game society are agreeably told in: the propitious period of the 1950’s, its consideration as an old-fashioned game and a game of cheater in the 80’s before coming to its current success through tournaments and competitions of online poker.
This cinematographic rewarded as the best documentary during this CineVegas festival gather at once images of archives of numerous tournaments played in USA as well as interviews of great stars such as Phil Hellmuth, Howard Lederer, Daniel Negreanu, Greg Raymer, Scott n’Guyen… Major stages which marked the poker, like the outlet of the film “The Rounders” of Matt Damon and John Malkovitch in 1999, Chris Moneymaker’s victory in 2003 WSOP which popularized tournaments but also the legislation restricting it, marked by the law UIGEA issue the same year, are related in the history, too. The outlet in France of the documentary is foreseen before the end of the year.
Source: Poker 777
Tuesday, 07 July 2009
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