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Tokyo, 1934. The boss of the clan that controls gambling agonizes and some of his followers propose to Nakai to take his place, but he refuses the offer and suggests they choose Matsuda, who is in prison.

Michael Korpi Jr. had it all. Straight A's, star athlete, talented musician, but his weakness for online poker derailed his life. Now he's walking across the country with his two dogs Blackjack and Buddy, in an effort to raise awareness for problem gambling. Dusty Schmidt was once known as one of the top amateur golfers in southern California before a heart attack at age 23 took him off the golf course, and put him in front of a computer screen. Four million dollars later, he is regarded as one of the world's best online poker players. Poker was once a blue collar game played in smoke filled back rooms over green felt tables, until a chubby accountant from Tennessee shocked the world by turning a $39 buy in on an online poker site, into a $2.5 million dollar first prize at the 2003 World Series of Poker. Over the next few years the entire world learned the game of No Limit Texas Hold 'Em. If you watched the poker boom on TV like the rest of us, it seemed like everyone was getting rich. Some were, but the fundamental rule of any game involving chance: in order for one to win, another must lose. The truth behind the hype is that there is a dark side to this game, one that you won't see on ESPN. From the Poker Boom of 2003 to "Black Friday", April 15th 2011, when the US Department of Justice shut down online poker, Drawing Dead follows the lives of two players, Michael and Dusty, as they deal with the highs and the lows of America's future favorite pastime, online poker.

Based on Al Capone's trial, following which America's most famous killer was sentenced to 11 years in prison for tax fraud, Patrick Jeudy retraces the criminal saga that gripped Chicago during Prohibition. Nothing escaped the high-roller who built his mafia empire on brute force and corruption. Until the day when the head of the Untouchables brigade, Eliot Ness, came on the scene.

The documentary film, "Inside The Edge" is an unprecedented glimpse into the world of elite blackjack players as they take on casinos for millions.

Two high school students named Silas and Babs wake up from a party they attended the night before only to find out that the party happened five years ago and every student who attended disappeared. Trapped by unstable characters obsessed with solving the mystery of the party and hunted by unspeakable horrors, Silas and Babs must survive and escape or else share the fate as their fellow classmates.

Older but wealthiest man in the village Zivota waits for his Russian bride, but when his freshly single nephew Dragoljub arrives he falls for the girl and takes her away. Nevertheless, wedding happens. Zivota marries local psychic, Dragoljub marries the Russian girl and his son marries his own girlfriend.

Kid Norton has always had a way with words, but unfortunately he is also a compulsive gambler and incredibly irresponsible, or at least his fiance Lori thinks so. Although his heart was in the right place, Kid now finds himself in a huge debt with his bookie Mickey. Lori, now completely fed up, finally leaves him until he learns to be responsible. With no luck, no money and now no fiance, Kid is forced to endure a series of hilariously brutal attacks by Mickey's enforcer, Butch. But soon Kid realizes his talent with words can help Butch's broken relationship with his girlfriend and buy Kid some time in paying off Mickey. Kid's poetry begins to work wonders for Butch, but unfortunately it works too well. Mickey eventually catches on and demands that Butch, claiming the poetry as his own, use 'his' new found talent with words to patch up Mickey's own dysfunctional relationship. Soon Mickey discovers their deceitful scheme and begins to release his wrath. Butch and Kid soon realize that by only betting on each other can they escape the tyranny of their common foe in order to succeed in their personal, professional and romantic aspects of their lives. WORDS TO LIVE BY is a feature length screenplay looked at in the same humorous style as Fargo mixed with the classic tale of Cyrano de Bergerac.

Sathya, the protagonist goes back to india on request of her Ex and helps her in finding her missed daughter, which leads to twists and turns!

Miner Dan Barton (Ken Maynard) and his partner George Malden--known as "Tennessee"--have hit a strike on their claim, and Dan returns to their cabin to find that Malden has departed to meet his sister Alice (Jeanette Loff) who is arriving on the stage from Tennessee to join her brother. Dan knows that Malden has a weakness for drink, gambling, and girls, and follows him to town, where he finds him playing cards with gamblers Fox Tyson (Charles King) and saloon owner Ace Brady (William Thorne) who, with the aid of bar girl Queenie (Carmelita Geraghty), are well on their way to cheating him out of his share of the claim. Dan halts that, but Tyson kills Malden and Dan is framed for the killing. He escapes, saves Alice from a stagecoach disaster, and takes her to his and Malden's cabin, but doesn't let her know that he is wanted for her brother's death. But Ace and Tyson quickly inform her, and are well on their way to getting all of the Barton/Malden gold mine. The two songs are "Wait for the Wagon" and "Oh, Susanna." Other than being filmed under the working title of "California in 1878", which was also the title of Jack Natteford's original story, and then getting sold to TV in 1949 and having the title changed, there are no other alternative titles on this film. Two alternative spellings are shown by some sources--fighting for fightin' and through for thru--but those are typos created by two different trade-paper reviewers in 1930.Accuracy regarding B-western titles was not a sticky point with the trade papers of the day.There are several versions of this story, including a Maynard remake called "Fargo Express," and Reliable Pictures used the story for Bob Steele's "The Pal from Texas."

Princeton grad student Richie, believing he's been swindled, travels to Costa Rica to confront online gambling tycoon Ivan Block. Richie is seduced by Block's promise of immense wealth, until he learns the disturbing truth about his benefactor. When the FBI tries to coerce Richie to help bring down Block, Richie faces his biggest gamble ever: attempting to outmaneuver the two forces closing in on him.