21 also features an excellent cast, with names like Kate Bosworth, Kevin Spacey, and Jim Sturgess. When the casino operators decide to strike back, the plot takes enough twists to deserve a special spot in Hollywood. The movie has a healthy mixture of fact and fiction to add drama and appeal to movie fans, but the story remains close enough to the real-life events to make the list. As the book title suggests, the film follows a group of MIT students who follow a professor as they take down Las Vegas casinos using blackjack card counting techniques. This 2008 film is based on Ben Mezrich’s non-fictional book Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions. High Roller: The Stu Ungar Story is as devastating as it is entertaining. A.W Vidmer’s film is no high-octane thriller, but Michael Imperioli puts up a good performance, acting out Ungar’s hedonistic highs and terrible lows. He made a lot of wrong turns and died at a young age, but the legend of Kid Poker will likely live forever. Stu Ungar’s life was filled with every imaginable vice, including gambling, booze, a lot of drugs, and parties.

Such talent and achievements would be enough material for a compelling movie or documentary, but the story gets even more interesting. After he won the World Series of Poker’s Main Event a record three times, the man is regarded as one of the most talented gin rummy and poker players of all time. Passionate poker players will immediately recognise the name, Stu Ungar. Coyotes assistant coach Rick Tocchet financed a sports gambling ring in which about a half-dozen NHL players and Wayne Gretzkys wife bet - but not on hockey - New Jersey authorities said Tuesday.

Movie wife has a gambling problem