The room is stunned when the Dean turns up a third Queen to take the hand. The Dean insists that the hand be completed and Vernon swaps out his hole 7 for a third Jack, which would beat the two pair he'd dealt the Dean. Identifying the three as the team who conned Larry, Malini's muscle pull their guns and Tiffany pulls hers, then Scarne enters with his gun drawn. Before the cards are turned up, Marlo enters the room.
The Dean goes all in, and when Vernon is $50,000 short, Charlie and Tiffany make up the shortfall so he can call the bet. He deals the Dean two pair, Kings and Queens, and himself a pair of Jacks with a 7 in the hole for the Dean to see. In the final hand, Vernon mucks a card and deals the hand. Vernon discovers the Dean is using a "juice deck," a deck marked to be readable when one's eyes are unfocused. The three talk about the trouble Vernon is having and Tiffany speculates the cards are marked. Dean's former lover Eve ( Melanie Griffith) arrives, and they take a break. Vernon and the Dean bust the other players and agree to play five card stud.
The three arrive at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel for the game, where they discover that the host is Malini. Scarne arrives at the murder scene and realizes that the three are involved from a description by the witnesses. Charlie, Vernon and Tiffany escape and hide out with The Professor ( Hal Holbrook), Vernon's former mentor, who is suspicious of Charlie and insists Vernon is better than him. Tiffany arrives in time to kill Nate, but Marlo escapes. Charlie agrees to pay back $100,000, but Nate pulls a gun and a gunfight ensues. The next day, Malini's enforcers track down Charlie to a restaurant and Marlo demands the return of Malini's money. After Vernon's departure, it's revealed that he and Tiffany had been lovers until Vernon left and Tiffany slept with Charlie. The three speculate that the story is an urban legend about "The Dean." They talk about taking the Dean ( Sylvester Stallone) down at a game with a $250,000 buy-in and total stakes of at least $2,000,000. They reach for their guns the man gets his first and kills the robber, whose blood splatters on the ace. The robber cuts a King and the man cuts the Ace of spades. The man and the robber (from the first scene) agree to cut cards for the money. They take Larry to an airport and kill him. They take him to the house, which has been stripped bare - everyone at the game was in on the con. He loses the money he bet belongs to a mobster named Malini ( Patrick Bauchau), who sends his enforcers Marlo ( Roger Guenveur Smith) and Nate ( B-Real) to retrieve him. Larry arrives and, after seeing Vernon's skills agrees to team with them - Larry will bet high on Vernon's crooked deals.Īt the game, Larry gets impatient with the slow action and, on his own deal, gets over $100,000 in the pot. As Vernon and Charlie wait for Larry, corrupt cop Scarne ( Bo Hopkins) shakes them down. In a flashback, Vernon switches out the contents of a six deck shoe and they take the casino for $40,000. Larry meets their third, Vernon ( Stuart Townsend), a card mechanic who is working as a blackjack dealer. They agree to a partnership to work a game with a potential profit of $20,000. Hustlers Tiffany ( Thandiwe Newton) and Charlie Miller ( Gabriel Byrne) meet up with Larry Jennings ( Jamie Foxx) as he's winning a poker game. He manages to defend himself and everyone but him and one robber is killed. In an underground poker game, a man is revealed to be cheating with a hole card when the game gets robbed. ( January 2015) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed.
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