Aces
2006
Starring: Lacey Toups, Christina Morris, and Sheena Chou
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What the box says:
Aces is the story of three college girls who bring the world of high-stakes poker to its knees. Elle is the Decoy, distracting the other players with her sultry allure; Pieti is the Brain, hooking the team into the hottest high-tech gadgetry; and Brooke is the Closer, using he mathematical skills to bring home hand after hand. Together they form a team that takes the Sand Diego poker scene by storm, seduces Las Vegas, and competes against the world's leading players in Rio de Janeiro.
What Kayla says
A college student is struggeling to find a job as she lives off here mom as she try's to makes some extra cash to make ends meet.She runs into one of her friends Pietis a college girl addicted to online poker. Pietis convinces her to hang out with her and her friend Elle a slutty little drink girl at the casinos who knows her way around the tables. The girls go to a under ground casino were the big boys play and try to mathematically hustle the guys of there money and use few tricks of there own.
The verdict
It was okay very staged and boarding.
What Mat says:
2 struggling college students are trying to make ends meet in life and school. Pieti is obsessed with online poker as a means of some small income outside of daddys deep pockets. After meeting Elle a swift, slight of handed, cardshark they decide to use the collegete math skills of Brooke and Pieti's quick hands to mark cards with dye that can only been seen by special glasses.
The Verdict:
The acting feels clunky and unpolished. Feels very made for TV.

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