High Roller: The Stu Ungar Story (DVD, 2005)

In this movie High Roller, it is based on a true story of Stu Ungar who grew up playing cards as a young child. Stu Ungar is played by Michael Imperioli from the Sopranos. His uncle helped him to play the game as he was so young and he was addicted. After playing with some professionals he was on his way to Las Vegas for the poker tournaments and was living the dream. However his greed and drug addiction got to the best of him. Quite an interesting story of a gambler.

We bought it because my husband is interested in Poker, and Stu Ungar is a legend. Also, we like Michael Imperioli as we know him from the Sopranos as Chris.

The story itself is well known, but the movie put a face on the characters and made it more real, especially to someone like me who is not big into poker. It is a good story in its own right I think.

besides imperioli not looking like stu ungar. i personally love this movie. i like the music as well. it has gotten bad reviews, but i think its quite accurate story of stuey's life.

I like autobiographies about crazy people they go into great detail about his whole life story and the issues he had to deal with back when he started playing poker. It also gives great insight into just how big of a gambler he truly was. this movie is one of the best I have seen.

The guy who wrote a review before me is an idiot and did not give any insite. This story tells the basic story about Stu Ungar, with some hollywood dramatic stuff. Its good to watch because Stu's life is a prime example of how gambling can fuc up your life if you dont keep it in check, and you lose control. Stu was a great player in all card games, not just poker, but he did become addicted to gambling and the lifestyle that comes with it. The move is good, but not great. It wont teach you crap about poker, but it will teach you how and what to avoid if you can ever win as much as he did :)