How to know you’re a good strategist
[Spoiler alert for the movie Rounders (1998)] In the movie Rounders, staring Matt Damon, John Malkovich and Edward Norton, the character played by Matt Damon (Mike McDermott, from now on Mike) is a law school student who is paying his tuition with money he makes out of playing poker. His friendship with the character played by Edward Norton get's him in debt with a russian mafia boss played by John Malkovich (Teddy KGB, from now on KGB), who also likes playing poker (and is really good at it). Mike has one night to raise up 15K dollars, or else... well you can imagine. He is lent 10K, so he's still 5K short. Here is the thing: what he decides to do is go to KGB's place and play him for the remaining 5K. Mike manages to beat KGB enough to be able to pay his debt with him and return the 10K he had borrowed (he even has some extra left). As Mike is gathering up his things to leave, KGB is not happy with having lost and want's a rematch, so he starts mocking Mike up to the point [Read full post...]