Rounders Quotes

Mike McDermott: [after have been caught base dealing, beaten up, and thrown out at the sheriffs game] What the fuck were you thinking?
Worm: I was trying to give us an edge
Mike McDermott: I had them
Worm: Look I'm sorry we got banged up, I took a shot and missed, it happens
Mike

McDermott: Happens all the time around you
Worm: And it doesn't happen to you? You're the one that flushed his whole bank roll on one hand
Mike McDermott: Oh fuck you man, that was different
Worm: How is that different? What makes you so fucking special? Why are all your moves so smart and noble and I'm always the

idiot piece of shit? You act like you're only one with any ambition
Mike McDermott: Then what's your ambition? I don't know, you tell me
Worm: I don't know, I don't think like that
Mike McDermott: No, you don't think
Worm: No, I don't think like you, you always think you can beat the game straight up,

that's not me, and I'm always going to look for that edge, always
Mike McDermott: Alright, what's the edge now? We owe fifteen grand in a day and we're broke, what the fuck do we do?
Worm: That's easy, we get the fuck outta dodge, we stay clear of the city for a while, we'll hit the road, we'll be up again in no time, this will all blow over, we'll

have a ball.
Mike McDermott: not a fucking chance I'm going to live like that, you talk to Grama, you get him to stake me
Worm: it's not going to work, we're not dealing with Grama.
Mike McDermott: [surprised] you said Grama was on his own
Worm: [looks down, remains silent, having been caught in a lie]

Mike McDermott: [insisting worm tell him the truth] you told me Grama was on his own
Worm: KGB bankrolled him
Mike McDermott: So you just fucked us right in the ass
Worm: [showing the car keys] yeah, all the way, you see what I'm saying. no fooling around, it's highway time, you with me or not?

Mike McDermott: no I'm not this time.
Worm: [surprised] , you're really going back there?
Mike McDermott: yeah

Grama: You owe twenty five I'll take the rest in five days
Mike McDermott: [trying to reach an agreement to pay off Worm's debt to Grama and Teddy KGB] Five grand a week and you keep the juice going we want what you want we want to square this thing but three days is impossible no one's saying "your not the man", just think of it as a business decision, he

just got out let's put him on a plan
Grama: This is not the money store we're not negotiating I tell you how it works
Mike McDermott: Then I'm asking
Grama: [Intentionally belittling Worm] you looking for some charity?
Worm: [feeling offended] , you know what?I need your fucking charity like I need your

cock in my ass.
Mike McDermott: [to Worm, irritated by his ego] Will you shut the fuck up?
Grama: It's too late for him to shut the fuck up
Mike McDermott: His good for it
Grama: If you think his good for it then it's on you too
Mike McDermott: Then it's on me too

Grama: Fifteen large five days or I start breaking things.

Mike McDermott: [at the judges game] It's plenty wise we know what we're holding and we know what you're holding
Judge Marinacci: The fuck you know what we all got
Mike McDermott: Summer clerkship in your office says I know what your holding
Judge Marinacci: I wouldn't bet with a job like that let's just say

"I'll put you at the top of the list" if your right

Worm: [while base dealing] Who wants more? I'm in, I'm staging a late night comeback, a "late night rally", just to warn you
Vitter: [Grabs Worm's hand] Hold on there
Worm: What are you doing?
Vitter: Give me the deck
Worm: Relax don't get so agitated
Vitter:

Looks like we got a rogue game here
Worm: A what?
State Trooper: What the hell is going on over here?
Vitter: [Referring to Worm] This son of a bitch is base dealing, I caught a hanger
Worm: A "hanger"? What are you saying? I don't even know what you're saying
State Trooper: His

saying you're dealing off the bottom of the deck
Worm: Come on guys
Sean Frye: [Referring to Mike] What'd he give him?
Vitter: Seven of hearts
State Trooper: [to Mike and Worm] You boys working? Are you professionals?
Mike McDermott: No listen I was winning before this guy got

here
State Trooper: Let the cards do the talking, if the seven didn't help you we'll listen to what you have to say
Worm: [Ozzie turns mike's cards over] hey, three of a kind you've Ozzie three sixes like...
Vitter: SHUT UP
State Trooper: [nervously] I'm just saying it was a three of a kind

State Trooper: [Vitter gives him the deck of cards and he shows the ace of spades on the bottom] One last thing
Worm: [All the state troopers stand up] Alright take it easy are you going to read us our rights at least?

Mike McDermott: [In bar] Mind if I sit?
Professor Petrovsky: Please, have a seat
Professor Petrovsky: That was a nifty trick the other night
Mike McDermott: Thank you
Professor Petrovsky: Marinacci and the DA were ready to cut cards for your services, of course it was altogether a

different trick you pulled today, the disappearing act at your meeting.
Mike McDermott: Yeah, I figured I owe you an explanation.
Professor Petrovsky: No, not to me, I'm sure there was a good reason you left, you just have to work harder, prepare and smooth things out with the others, I'm sure there was a good reason why you left.
Mike

McDermott: [nods]

Grama: [referring to worm] Where's your friend?
Mike McDermott: His gone
Grama: So you brought my money?
Mike McDermott: I'm a little short
Grama: How short?
Mike McDermott: The whole way
Grama: There must be some kind of story

Mike McDermott: As you can see I can't pay you
Grama: I can see you're banged up pretty good, you never should've vouched for that scumbag
Mike McDermott: Maybe not
Grama: You're leaving me no outs here
Mike McDermott: Why?
Grama: I can't trust that you're not

playing me
Mike McDermott: I'm not the one working with a partner
Grama: [eventually implying Mike will be tortured] You want to take it up with KGB you go right ahead otherwise you got one day or this will feel like a Swedish massage.

Mike McDermott: [Narrating during their final game] Doyle Brunson says" the key to no limit is to put a man to a decision for all his chips" Teddy's just did it his representing aces the only hand better than my cowboys I can't call and just give him a chance to catch I can only fold if I believe him in a heads up match your stack is almost as important as the quality of your

cards I chopped one of his legs off in the first hand now all I have to do is lean on him until he falls over
Mike McDermott: [Narrating] the rule is this: if you spot a man's tell, you don't say a fucking word I finally spotted KGB's and usually I'd let him chewing those Oreos until he was dead broke but I don't have that kind of time I've only got until morning not even

Teddy KGB is immune to getting a little rattled

Professor Petrovsky: [sitting across from each other in a bar] I know a magician doesn't reveal his secrets
Mike McDermott: I'm not a magician
Professor Petrovsky: If it wasn't "magic", how did you know what everyone held?
Mike McDermott: It's a combination of things: I was watching when the cards came out,

that's just an old habit with me, it's like breathing
Professor Petrovsky: Watch the cards?
Mike McDermott: I watch the cards but I also watch the player react to the cards. That's how I knew the DA made his two pair and judge Kaplan missed the flush, I was watching their eyes when they checked their river cards, their faces tell you everything

Professor Petrovsky: [Confused] you watch the man? I never knew you had to calculate so much in cards
Mike McDermott: here's some advice, just play premium hands, you only start with jacks or better if its good enough to call you've also got to be in there raising, tight but aggressive and I do mean aggressive, you've got to think of it as a war

Professor Petrovsky: [Jokingly] you're officially never invited to our game again
Mike McDermott: I don't blame you, put a guy like me in that game, cards don't even matter I'll play it blind