I had seen a couple of quite lousy British attempts at combining the newfound boom in Poker (especially Texas Hold 'em) with XXX porn: Bluebird's "Poker Room" and Kendo's "Poker Ass". Private funded this rather awful U.S. production that ended Nic Cramer's career, set in Las Vegas at a "private.com" poker tournament.
Katie Morgan narrates virtually the entire story and stars, amounting to clearly the best element of the film and only reason to sit through it. Cramer tries to be hip in his segment titles and overall parody of the TV shows capitalizing in recent years broadcasting Texas Hold 'em contests, but fails to address the elephant in the room - what is the possible connection between explicit sex and poker games?
Instead he has ludicrous scenes of actresses as sort of fluffers, giving the male players blow-jobs under (actually next to) the table during a big game. It's as silly as the British versions and reduces the whole thing to a failed gimmick. Chief fluffer is Lexi Bardot as "Knees" (hardy-har-har).
Prize for the tournament winner is $10,000,000 and Katie manages to get to the final table of 6, ultimately going head to head with one-eyed (Jack) villain Brad Baldwin. His set of sixes beats her set of fives in a well-scripted (for her narration, that is -dialog here is minimized or eliminated) scene that provided a few minutes of real movie-making . But the rest of the hour and a half is idiotic porn.
Finale and its twists is particularly dumb, adding to the conclusion that one has wasted one's time giving once-lofty director Cramer a chance at the end of his career to prove himself.
Katie Morgan narrates virtually the entire story and stars, amounting to clearly the best element of the film and only reason to sit through it. Cramer tries to be hip in his segment titles and overall parody of the TV shows capitalizing in recent years broadcasting Texas Hold 'em contests, but fails to address the elephant in the room - what is the possible connection between explicit sex and poker games?
Instead he has ludicrous scenes of actresses as sort of fluffers, giving the male players blow-jobs under (actually next to) the table during a big game. It's as silly as the British versions and reduces the whole thing to a failed gimmick. Chief fluffer is Lexi Bardot as "Knees" (hardy-har-har).
Prize for the tournament winner is $10,000,000 and Katie manages to get to the final table of 6, ultimately going head to head with one-eyed (Jack) villain Brad Baldwin. His set of sixes beats her set of fives in a well-scripted (for her narration, that is -dialog here is minimized or eliminated) scene that provided a few minutes of real movie-making . But the rest of the hour and a half is idiotic porn.
Finale and its twists is particularly dumb, adding to the conclusion that one has wasted one's time giving once-lofty director Cramer a chance at the end of his career to prove himself.