Nearing the climax of the movie "Rounders" — as Matt Damon’s poker-hustling character Mike McDermott is heading into the pit of Teddy KGB’s dank, dimly lit, iron-doored gambling den — he takes a moment to monologue about the depths he’s finally reached.
He’s in the wrong kind of trouble, with the worst kind of people, grasping for one last chance to save himself.
“I’ve often seen these people,” McDermott narrates, “these squares at the table, short-stacked and long odds against them, all their outs gone, one last card in the deck that can help them.