Movie Mistake
The pot at the end of the final game totals $50,000 but they keep referring to it as "a half-million dollars." They said it at least three times.
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Really?? I watched that movie multiple times as a kid and I could swear that they say “five hundred and fifty thousand dollars.” It also, shouldn’t be a $50,000 pot because the buy in alone was $25,000 that Maverick was trying to reach throughout the movie.
Angel and the Commodore both raise $25,000 each at the end (gasps all around) and Angel says "that's a half-million to the winner."
They never said "five hundred and fifty" or any other figure like that either. With 20 players contributing $25,000 each that math is right, but somewhere along the line it seems they lost the plot.
Also when Annabelle gets away with the valise holding "a quarter of a million" Brett stashed the other quarter in his boots. A single stack of bills in one boot, and 9 more in the other?
I think the pot isn’t the prize. You play until 1 player is left and he gets all the entrances fees…. Which totaled 1/2 a million. I.e. the winner of that hand was going to win the tournament.
But it’s been a hot second since I’ve seen that movie.
Ok, that could be. Angel's phrasing was needlessly confusing, but he was pretty steamed at the time lol.
It's clearly stated out loud before the tournament that there's a $25,000 entry fee, there are 20 players, and winner takes all.
https://youtu.be/2GE_J9qUG3U#t=
Op didn't pay attention lmao
I thought the reference to half a million was that was the amount the winner would receive but the total in the game maverick was playing was $50,000. So if he won the game he’d win the half million, even though there was only $50k on the line. The remainder of the money was sitting on the side. But it’s been years since I saw that movie so could be remembering wrong.
Off topic and I may be remembering the movie wrong. But why did Maverick’s dad steal the money after Maverick had won the tournament?
They didn't give a reason. Perhaps an opportunity to get the Commodore out on his own? Seemed like he really hated him.
What? Maverick and his father steal it together. They meet up in a bathhouse, and she comes back and steals part of it from them.
Coop steals it from the tournament, the Commodore pursues him and we find out the Commodore had paid Coop to keep Maverick from being able to participate. Maverick shows up as the Commodore is about to shoot Coop and take all the money. He leaves the two of them without the money to duke it out. Coop shows up at the bath house saying he made sure the Commodore wouldn't ever be able to cheat at cards again.
This has nothing to do with the topic but I saw this movie when I was a kid. Me and my good friend. His dad went and saw some other movie while we went and Maverick. His dad didn't trust him as far as he could throw him. He randomly came into the movie during a scene and said " Emmanuel " my boy locked up and got up and answered his dad. It was the craziest thing. When you open the door and the light peaks in a tiny bit it was an older theater.
Half a million dimes?
Jodie Foster is hella hot in this movie.
But yeah the prize is a half mil.
Having not seen this movie in over a decade, I can't comment directly, but the main tournament is a $500,000 prize.
It is possible that the value of chips in the game was different to the prize. For example, in a tournament, you may get "$1,000" starting chips for your $20 but in. In essence, the chips on the table have no intrinsic value outside of the game.
So the final pot would have been for the total prize ($500k), not the chips on the table.
I totally just watched this movie today! I’ve always just mathed it in my head as 500,000 and never caught that. I was too busy watching the stagecoach stunt where the horse trips.