After several years of playing smaller roles,the actor had a big breakthrough year in 2011.
Now, another one of Chastain’s truth-based movies is getting reviewed by an expert.
It made $59.2 million at the box office.
Speaking withInsider, poker professional Darren Elias provides his review ofMolly’s Game, and looks at its accuracy.
Elias himself has played them with well-known people like Michael Phelps and Kelly Rowland.
Overall,he gave the movie a 9 out of 10 accuracy score.
And this is something that happens in real life.
I’ve encountered a few of them.
I’ve played with Michael Phelps, Nelly, Kelly Rowland.
It’s tough to infiltrate these private games if you’re not in the circle.
Unrealistic that a player would fold the nuts specifically.
The nuts just means you have the best possible hand at that moment.
If you’re opponents fold, you win the pot regardless of your cards.
So, bluffing very much a huge factor.
I can certainly believe something like that would happen in a big private game.
There’s always a Bad Brad in the private games.
So that’s a good example of playing the strategy in the situation versus playing the player.
And this is certainly something that happens when players are not familiar with each other.
You’re kind of stuck playing a basic, a more simpler strategy.
Which I think less experienced players are more likely to go on tilts.
And I definitely had trouble dealing with tilt, things like that when I was younger.
And I was a lot less in control of myself and my emotions.
Give it a higher rating than Rounders?
I have to think about this.
I would give Molly’s Game a 9 out of 10 based on those two scenes.
Both scenes in a private game were things that could actually happen.
