ESPN: The 2003 World Series of Poker - Season 1 - 2003
The World Series of Poker is held every year at Harrah's Horseshoe Casino and is looked forward to year-round by poker enthusiasts Begun in by Benny Binion it has grown in audience and participation numbers and offers events for players to flex their gambling muscles in pursuit of the multi-million dollar prize A marathon game that isn't over until one player holds all the chips … Continue
Two kids from Nebraska, Lidda (Kirsten Dunst) and Colonel (Vincent Kartheiser), set out on a road trip to Las Vegas with individual aspirations. Lidda wants to locate her father Charlie Doyles (James Caan) whom has left home to further pursue his calling as a professional poker player, and Colonel dreams of becoming a big time Vegas gambler of his own. Along the way, the couple falls in love, but their relationship as well as their lives are threatened when Colonel gets mixed-up with a local gangster named Tony, (Robert Miano) who just happens to be Charlie's poker playing archenemy. When push comes to shove, Lidda and Colonel are forced gamble with the highest stakes of all... their lives.