“If you can’t spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker.”
In a movie full of great lines, that one was the best. The best because Rounders was a poker movie, and no sentence has ever hit at the core of poker better than that one.
But also, the best because the idea so clearly transcends poker. It’s a dark truism about our culture and the world we live in.
And—in a much more trivial but no less profound way—
about betting on sports.