The movie tells a beautiful but sad story of how gambling addiction can ruin friendships and people’s lives, but also conveys some fantastic life lessons that you can benefit from. In order to join this high-stake poker game he decides to steal a car and his mother’s life savings, then ends up being involved with a dangerous man called Turk. He has lost many things on many occasions, but he simply believes the next game is his.

He cheats on most people in his life to get the money to play poker. Bobby is a romantic who is rather careless. As for Rosenthal’s opinion on Casino and the character of Sam Rothstein, he shared De Niro’s character was quite similar to him though not fully (via Casino Discussion), and felt that the depiction of his life’s events was largely accurate.The story follows the life of a poker player by the name of Bobby, who has a gambling problem and continues to play poker games even though he doesn’t have any money left. Rosenthal later moved to Boca Raton, Florida, where he ran a sports bar, and then moved to Miami, where he ran a sports betting website and served as a consultant for various offshore sports betting companies.įrank “Lefty” Rosenthal died on October 13, 2008, and after his death, it was revealed that he had been an FBI informant, as was Geri McGee. In real life, and as mentioned above, Rosenthal moved to California and focused on raising his children, and in 1990, he won an unprecedented court ruling to have his name removed from “the Black Book”, but the following year, the ban was reinstated. Casino covered Rothenstal’s assassination attempt and Ginger’s death, and in the end, it saw De Niro’s Rothstein working as a sports handicapper in San Diego after the Mafia got out of the casino industry, almost all old casinos were demolished, and new ones were built with money from junk bonds.

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