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The Gambler

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It was great to see this movie again; don't know why TV stations have not shown it in many years. Kenny Rogers has been a really good singer since his days w/ The First Edition through his switch to country style music & The Gambler theme song is 1 of his best [Ruby is another good song]. Not only is he a good singer, Rogers is a pretty good actor in his role as Brady Hawks too. The supporting actors in The Gambler are also good, & the story keeps your interest throughout. If you like westerns, & don't have The Gambler in your collection, it's a good un'.

The confusion for me is what he won in the final confrontation?
The railroad gambling action is fun
and the saloon fights are pretty good too.
I think the theme song is maybe the best part of the movie.
Otherwise it is just another western that appears to be not all that well written? California and Arizona on the Southern Pacific Rail Road
after the 1860's wasn't owned by one man?
Anyway I liked the movie, but can't give it very high marks for plot.

Kenny Rogers makes a great western person I have alot of his other one I bought this to add to my Western DVD collection

I'll be honest. I haven't seen any of the gambler movies. I bought this for my step dad. He told me he enjoyed it a lot. Besides, I like westerns too. And any western with kenny rogers has to be good.

I loved this movie. It was just a down right good movie from beginning to end. Kind of lets you go back to the way things were back in that day.

I know you can find poker now on ESPN, Fox, Food TV and cartoon network, but I don't watch any of them. You wanna know why? Come here, I'll tell you. First, I'm an incredibly gifted poker player and second, this movie is all you need to know about poker. To this day, when a loser comes up to me and asks how to play poker you know what I tell them? I say, "You got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away and know when to reach across the table and drop a people's elbow" I learned that from the Mr. Myagi of poker, Kenneth Dale Rogers. This movie is about a crazy poker player that makes people mad with his cooky ways and then sings his way out of trouble.

I do this too. I win every poker game I play because I can bluff like you can only dream of. They call me Rich Kings Bluffnest Nook when I play poker. That's my name combined with bluffing. I can be holding a 2, a king, a 7, a joker and a 1985 topps Bob Owchinko baseball card and I can get a guy with a straight flush to fold. I'm just gifted I guess. I'm like Steve Perry of Journey, sometimes you wonder if I'm of this world. Well, get this DVD and you are only your journey to being 1/34th as good as me.