No Limit: A Search for the American Dream on the Poker Tournament Trail
by Tim Rhys, Brian O'Hare
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Actor: Daniel Negreanu, David Sklansky, Doyle Brunson, Mike Sexton, Phil HellmuthDirector: Brian O'Hare, Tim Rhys
Brand: REPNET LLC
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 87 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-10-10
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Taking a Shot, LLC
DVD Reviews of No Limit: A Search for the American Dream on the Poker Tournament Trail
DVD Review: No Limit? Says who? I saw none
Summary: 2 Stars
Ok first off, starting a poker documentary with nothing but shots of your kids and how great your family is and then saying "two single parents from opposite coasts" probably isn't the best thing for a film about gambling. I knew I was in trouble when this was the case. In reality, they are two people whom used to be married to each other and are now working together. You can obviously see why they are not together. Both have different goals and outlooks on life.
Next, the poker content. What poker content? All we see is the main character whining about how "cold" she runs but how great she plays. She relies so heavily on luck that I believe her to be completely dillusional about the games she's actually playing. She doesn't play No Limit one time in the film, like the title would lead you to believe. Every tournament is either Omaha 8 or Stud 8 and that is all. The main character of the movie just got insanely annoying when every table draw was lucky or unlucky, a shirt...yes a friggin shirt on her chair was her excuse for losing despite being at a "lucky" table. She gets seated at table 44 seat 3 and says..."oh 11, this is really lucky!" only to bust after just a few hours and blame something for her bad luck and cold cards. I mean, seriously. Are you going to try to turn pro and play poker tournaments for a living and dangle your every decision or result on how lucky you are?
Third, there are a ton of inaccuracies in the film. Just a few are stating the Harrahs owns the former Binion's Horseshoe on Freemont street, which is 100% incorrect. They own the WSOP and MTR has owns Binion's since Becky sold it in 2004. Harrahs only managed it for 6 months until MTR got their people properly trained. Others included the text on the screen saying "tournament 2 day 1" when it was actually her third event. There were no "day 1" or "Day 2" of any events. Everything she played was a single day event. Why call all the individual tourneys at one location as just one tournament when in fact they are not?
The only saving grace of this movie is some of the interviews with top pros. There is a lot of insight as to what makes these guys tick but it always seems to be money and nothing but. There are no talks of charity, family, life, just how much money they can get so that buying things means nothing to their overall bottom line. Devil Fish talking about how he rides in limos and takes private jets, and others talking about the same things. It pretty much paints the pros out to be nothing but money hungry people with nothing to offer society after they've been trying to change this image for years.
2/5 stars only because of the production quality and some of the insight into the way the pros think.
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