<P> Mike decides to return to New York to deal with his situation . He meets with Grama to try and get an extension on the deadline . Grama reprimands Mike for vouching for Worm in the first place . Mike chastises Grama for working with KGB . Grama advises Mike to either take it up with KGB, pay the remaining amount, or face a potentially fatal fate . Mike tries to ask Knish for the money, before Knish refuses out of principle . Mike tells a story to Knish about a time in Atlantic City where Mike beat Johnny Chan in a hand of poker, which resulted in Mike making a run at KGB's place in the beginning of the movie . Remembering an earlier conversation Mike has with his law school professor Petrovsky (Martin Landau), Mike goes to Petrovsky's office to ask for the money as a loan . Unable to give Mike the full $15,000, Petrovsky give Mike $10,000 to help him get out of trouble . Mike cashes the check from Petrovsky, and challenges KGB to a second game of heads - up, No - Limit Texas Hold'em for the remaining amount, with winner - take - all stakes, which KGB accepts . Mike beats KGB in the first session, winning $20,000 . As Mike is content with his winnings, he decides to leave when KGB summons Grama to collect the $15,000 to square the debt . KGB offers Mike to let his winnings "ride" and continue playing . With enough money to pay off his and Worm's debt and half of the $10,000 loan from Petrovsky, Mike decides to leave the game . As he is about to leave, KGB taunts Mike, pointing out that KGB is still up $20,000 that Mike lost previously in the first game, goading Mike to continue . </P> <P> Mike hesitates; then decides to continue playing, doubling the blinds at the risk of losing a second time, and possibly his life, to Grama and KGB . As the night wears on, Mike is on the verge of losing to KGB . While in a hand, he spots a tell, a repeated behavior that allows him to know the value of KGB's hand (which is discovered to be the Oreo's that KGB eats as he's playing). Mike folds a hand, stating that KGB has a better winning hand . A befuddled KGB is irate that Mike folded the hand that KGB should've won and gotten paid for . Furious that Mike folded that hand and Mike potentially discovered his tell, KGB angrily tosses the Oreo's and begins to play on "tilt", visibly shaken that Mike has now gotten the best of him . KGB becomes frustrated that Mike won't be defeated and that Mike is getting the better of him . In the final hand, KGB taunts Mike as Mike slow - plays his hand (8 and 9 of spades) and allows a boastful KGB to emotionally bet and eventually go all - in . Mike calls, revealing that Mike flopped a nut straight (6 to the 10) to defeat KGB . KGB angrily throws a tantrum and becomes unhinged at the way Mike played him in the second game, trapping KGB into a mistake . Grama urges KGB to continue; however, completely rattled, KGB states that he is done for the night . When KGB's goons go to beat up Mike, KGB calls them off and after admitting that Mike defeated him fairly, allows him to leave with his winnings . </P> <P> Mike narrarates that he won over $60,000 as a result of the second game with KGB . Mike settles the remaining $15,000 of Worm's debt (calling his personal issue with Worm now "even"), he pays back $6,000 to the Chesterfield, repays the $10,000 loan to Petrovsky, and restores his original bankroll of "three stacks of high society ." Mike drops out of law school, says goodbye to Jo, and leaves New York headed for Las Vegas with dreams of winning the World Series of Poker . </P> <Ul> <Li> Matt Damon as Mike McDermott </Li> <Li> Edward Norton as Lester "Worm" Murphy </Li> <Li> John Turturro as Joey Knish, character inspired by wry underground poker player Joel "Bagels" Rosenberg </Li> <Li> John Malkovich as Teddy KGB </Li> <Li> Famke Janssen as Petra </Li> <Li> Michael Rispoli as Grama </Li> <Li> Martin Landau as Abe Petrovsky </Li> <Li> Gretchen Mol as Jo </Li> <Li> Paul Cicero as Russian Thug </Li> <Li> Melina Kanakaredes as Barbara </Li> <Li> Josh Mostel as Zagosh </Li> <Li> Tom Aldredge as Judge Marinacci </Li> <Li> Lenny Clarke as Savino </Li> <Li> Chris Messina as Higgins </Li> <Li> Goran Višnjić as Maurice </Li> <Li> David Zayas as Osborne </Li> <Li> Johnny Chan as himself </Li> <Li> Bill Camp as Eisenberg </Li> <Li> Josh Pais as Weitz </Li> <Li> Adam LeFerve as Sean Frye </Li> </Ul>

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