However, as the game of poker received international fame in the early 2000s, Rounders grew into a cult movie, with millions of poker fans watching it again and again.Īt the time, it was so easy for all the new poker players dreaming of poker fame to relate to the characters of Rounders, even if their story was not quite the same. The movie was released in 1998, before the Poker Boom, and was not incredibly successful right off the bat. Featuring Matt Damon in the lead role, “Rounders” is the most popular poker movie of all time, and by quite some margin.
