1. High Chicago
   Seven Card Stud
2. No-Limit Texas Hold 'em
   Low Chicago

The movie featured no-limit Texas Hold 'em as the game of choice. This is often called the "Cadillac of poker," as it takes strategy and skill to the highest level.

1. Dwight Englewood Preparatory Academy
   JFK School for Boys
2. New York University
   Worked together at McDonald's

They both went to Dwight Englewood Preparatory Academy, but were also the only two kids at the school who weren't wealthy, as Worm's dad was the groundskeeper and Mike's dad was the custodian. They would scam money off the kids and they even paid the basketball team to throw a game.

1. LLC
   FBI
2. CIA
   KGB

KGB stands for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti in Russia and was the main security agency for the country until it broke up in 1991. Teddy was from Russia, so Mika gave him this nickname.

1. Two pair
   Spade flush
2. Full House
   Four of a kind

Mike actually had a full house with nines over aces, so he thought he had that spade flush beat. Instead, Teddy KGB had a full house too, but aces over nines, and therefore won the pot.

1. Breaking and entering
   Robbing a bank
2. Distributing fake credit cards
   Making counterfeit money

Worm was caught distributing fake credit cards. After he got out of jail, Mike joked that Worm needed to get a job or would have to go back to making the fake credit cards. Worm replied he was only distributing the cards, not making them.

1. Bellagio
   Treasure Island
2. The Mirage
   MGM Grand

While he was trying to make himself look like he was thinking of calling with a full house, he was saying to himself, "I want him to think that I'm pondering a call but all I'm really thinking about is Vegas and the Mirage."

1. Sock drawer
   In the basement
2. In book called "Super System"
   In toilet

"Super System 2 Winning Strategies for Limit Hold 'em Cash Games and Tournament Tactics" is a book written by poker legend Doyle Brunson. Mike quotes this book throughout the movie.

1. $10,000
   $15,000
2. $20,000
   $30,000

Mike put $30,000 into a game of Texas Hold 'em. In the end, he wins this money back and some.

1. Part-time job driving a delivery truck
   Money to get back in the game again
2. A place to live
   A plane ticket out of there

After losing it all to Teddy KGB, Mike vowed to never play poker again. Joey Knish, a mentor and fellow rounder, offered to give Mike some money to rebuild his bankroll, but Mike turned him down and instead took a part-time job with him.

1. Johnny Chan and Phil Hellmuth
   Val Carpenter and Johnny Moss
2. T.J. Cloutier and Jim Bechtel
   Johnny Chan and Erik Seidel

The video did show a hand between Johnny Chan and Erik Seidel. This was taken from the 1988 Word Series of Poker tournament, which Johnny won.

1. Manhattan
   Queens
2. Binghamton
   Staten Island

Mike and Worm head to Binghamton to take part in this municipal workers' game. It ends with them getting beat up pretty bad, as Worm was caught base-dealing.

1. Euchre
   Poker
2. Hearts
   Spades

Worm was playing Hearts with the other prisoners and winning all of their cigarettes in the process. However, Worm didn't smoke, so he would take them and then throw them away!

1. 30 grand
   30 G's
2. Three stacks of high society
   Three blind mice

When Mike went into Teddy KGB's club, he asked for "three stacks of high society." As we found out, that was $30,000, which he would lose to Teddy.

1. Bally's
   Harrah's
2. Taj Mahal
   Tropicana

The plan was to roll up some tourists and make some money. However, they ended up playing with some rounders from New York City.

1. Joey Knish
   Teddy KGB
2. Judge Marinacci
   Abe Petrovsky

Mike did not know this information, as he vouched for Worm to Grama, which meant the debt was also placed on Mike. Knowing that Teddy KGB was a very dangerous man — especially when you owed him money — worried Mike even more.

1. Larry Bird and Kevin McHale
   John Stockton and Karl Malone
2. Walt Frazier and Earl Monroe
   Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen

Matt Damon is a Boston native, so it must have killed him to use a New York Knicks reference and not a Celtics one. However, the film was based in NYC and they went with Walt "Clyde" Frazier and Earl "the Pearl" Monroe instead.

1. 1997
   1998
2. 1999
   2000

Both Damon and Norton entered the $10,000 buy-in WSOP tournament. They both ended up losing the game to former champion Doyle Brunson.

1. Half-hour
   Hour
2. Two hours
   Three hours

This is one of the first lines of the movie, and is spoken while Mike is narrating. The scene shows Mike taking all of his money to go play a game ay Teddy KGB's place.

1. Les Murphy
   Wes Malkovich
2. Edward Murphy
   Joey Knish

Although everyone called him Worm, his real name was Les Murphy. His real name is actually mentioned quite a few times during the movie.

1. Abe Petrovsky
   Judge Marinacci
2. Joey Knish
   D.A. Shields

Mike is reading the players' cards at the "judges' game" and Judge Marinacci (Tom Aldredge) is impressed. Mike says, "Summer clerkship in your office says I know what you're holding." Marinacci replies, "I don't bet with jobs like that. Let's just say I'll put you at the top of the list if you're right."

1. $10,000
   $15,000
2. $20,000
   $30,000

At the time, Mike and Worm owed KGB $15,000, so he asked Joey Knish for the money, but Joey said no. Mike then went to ask his law school professor Abe Petrovsky (Martin Landau) for the money, but he could only give him $10,000.

1. $4,000
   $6,000
2. $8,000
   $10,000

Worm won $8,000 from the two Russians. He started the game with $2,000 and cashed out with $10,000.

1. Wired Aces
   Three Kings
2. Straight
   Full House

Worm is known to cheat, but Mike doesn't believe in cheating. So, when he gets dealt three kings in the first hand, he knows Worm cheated, and he folds.

1. Poker room
   Bar
2. Prison
   Strip club

Grama ends up finding Worm at the strip club and beats him up. Grama is a money shark and Worm owes him money, so after beating him up, Grama takes all the money Worm has on him.

1. Two Jacks
   Two Queens
2. Two Kings
   Two Aces

Teddy bets on this hand and Mike raises it. Mike wins and takes down the first pot.

1. The Lucky Hand
   Riverdale
2. The Chesterfield
   Cloverfield

Petra, played by Famke Janssen, worked at The Chesterfield and had an intimate relationship with Mike. However, she did allow Worm to play under Mike's credit at The Chesterfield and rack up $6,000 in debt.

1. James Bowie
   Canada Bill Jones
2. Amarillo Slim Preston
   Viktor Blom

Canada Bill Jones was known for being a master at three-hand monte. He was known to cheat while doing it and when asked if it was immoral to cheat, he replied, "it's immoral to let a sucker keep his money."

1. Texas Hold 'Em
   Hearts
2. Chicago
   Go Fish

Chicago is a card game where the high spade in the hole wins half the pot. Worm is dealing the first hand and deals Mike the Ace of Spades.

1. Tiffani Thiessen
   Jessica Alba
2. Neve Campbell
   Alyssa Milano

Neve Campbell was up to play the role of Jo in "Rounders." However, she turned it down and instead, Gretchen Mol took over the role.

1. Ford Mustang
   Toyota Camry
2. Jeep
   Blazer

It seems insignificant, but it was a part of the movie, as Mike asked Jo to borrow it when he went to pick up Worm from prison.

1. Vodka
   Scotch
2. Gin
   Whiskey

When Mike arrived at the bar, the professor offered to get him a drink and Mike asked what he was drinking, to which the professor said, "Gin. Always gin."

1. $6,000
   $16,000
2. $26,000
   $56,000

Mike was going up against one of the best in the World Series of Poker, yet only had $6,000 at the table. Joey Knish said he needed at least $50,000 or $60,000 to play the game right with Johnny.

1. Rake
   Brush
2. Ante
   Full House

Worm made this analogy when Jo moved out of the apartment with Mike. In poker, the rake is the commission fee the poker room takes out for hosting the game.

1. Amarillo Slim
   Crispy Lenetta
2. Canada Bill Jones
   Worm

The judges did not seem to be fans of Crispy Lenetta, though. They came down on him hard and even got his restaurant closed down, which had been opened for years.

1. Three Aces
   The "nut" straight
2. Full house
   Four Aces

Mike pulled out the victory in the end. The famous line, "You're right, Teddy. The ace didn't help me. I flopped the nut straight."