The movie was so influential that it has basically taken over the poker lexicon, and convincing a whole generation of young men that poker is a game of skill.
Rounders legacy is still going strong in the poker world, where it is considered the best poker movie ever made by virtually every serious poker player. With an infusion of new, young, blood into the poker world in the early 2000’s Rounders brought many new players into the poker world, many finding the game in home games in dorm rooms and even online.
Rounders was considered a box office flop, but like many movies that don’t translate well in the cinema the movie gained a cult-like following among young men, especially in high-school and college. Without Rounders there is likely never a Chris Moneymaker, or at least not by that name. So in this series I’ll take a look at each factor individually and explain its role in the 2003 Poker Boom and how it meshed with the other aspects of the Poker Boom. It’s really hard to factor the importance of each in the grand scheme of things, since they all essentially played off of one another.
In my opinion there were actually five factors that had a hand in creating the Poker Boom: In this series I’m going to try to outline the major forces that came together to produce the 2003 “Poker Boom” and why these forces will likely never be repeated again.
