With a new baby and wife to support, out-of-work filmmaker Matt Gallagher tries his hand - and some would say, luck at playing poker for a living.
Direction
Self-doc guts—turning the camera on his own desperation.
Writing
Poker metaphors hit different when your kid's future's on the table.
Director
Matt Gallagher
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Gallagher's camera becomes a confessional—every loss at the table is also a failure as provider, blurring documentary subject and desperate protagonist.
Shot during the 2011 poker boom post-Moneymaker, when every guy with a laptop thought he could go pro. Spoiler: most couldn't.
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