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The Poker House, subsequently retitled as Behind Closed Doors, is a 2008 American independent drama film written and directed by Lori Petty, in her directorial debut.Based on Petty's early life during the 1970s, [1] the film depicts a painful day in the life of Agnes (Jennifer Lawrence) a teenage girl who is raising her two younger sisters, Bee (Sophi Bairley) and Cammie (Chloë Grace Moretz ...
ISBN. 1-4176-6563-7. Followed by. Busting Vegas. Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions is a 2003 book by Ben Mezrich about a group of MIT card counters commonly known as the MIT Blackjack Team. Though the book is classified as non-fiction, The Boston Globe alleges that the book contains ...
Molly Bloom (born April 21, 1978) is an American entrepreneur, speaker, [1] and author of the 2014 memoir Molly's Game. During the 2000s, she became known as the "Poker Princess", [2] for organizing high stakes underground poker in Los Angeles that attracted A-list actors. She was previously a competitive skier, a member of the US Ski Team, and ...
Plot. During a field trip in a museum exhibit about the human body, six-year-old Ian Alston is found to have bloody diarrhea. Meanwhile, at a charity casino night at Princeton-Plainsboro, House, Wilson, and Cuddy are engaged in a game of Texas hold 'em poker when Cuddy receives the news about her new patient. She dismisses it as dehydration and ...
1. Money finish (es) 3. Information accurate as of 12 May 2024. Phillip Dennis Ivey Jr. (born February 1, 1977) [3] is an American professional poker player who has won eleven World Series of Poker bracelets, one World Poker Tour title, and appeared at nine World Poker Tour final tables.
Lucky You is a 2007 American drama film directed by Curtis Hanson, and starring Eric Bana, Drew Barrymore and Robert Duvall.The film was shot on location in Las Vegas.The screenplay was by Hanson and Eric Roth, but the film was partially inspired by George Stevens' 1970 film The Only Game in Town.
Mid-to-late 1800s: Poker's Wild West-ward expansion. As poker began gaining popularity—and introducing various sharps and cheats—on boats up the Mississippi River, the game migrated in tandem ...
The Bet (short story) " The Bet " ( Russian: "Пари", romanized : Pari) is an 1889 short story by Anton Chekhov about a banker and a young lawyer who make a bet with each other following a conversation about whether the death penalty is better or worse than life in prison. The banker wagers that the lawyer cannot remain in solitary ...