LAS
VEGAS, July 27 -- "The Big Blind," the world's first
reality-based Texas Holdem poker movie, is now
available on DVD through internet sale -- a
distribution system as unique as the film's financing,
production and storyline -- the film is funded by
winnings of the its writer/director and executive
producer, and tells its tale through vignettes based
on real poker players.
"The Big Blind" is available for purchase over
www.thebigblind.com. The site also provides a synopsis
of the film as well as reviews from what would seem to
be unlikely sources -- championship poker players and
columnists of card and gaming magazines rather than
entertainment writers.
"I
was amazed that someone has finally made a really,
really accurate film about us. It was funny,
entertaining and most of all accurate," said Phil
Hellmuth, a nine-time World Series of Poker champion.
Hellmuth's review was typical of the accolades
directed to "The Big Blind."
With more than 60 million Texas Holdem poker players
in the United States, the 16 stories of "The Big
Blind" will resonate with card players across the
country, said David James, the writer/director who
penciled out the script between poker hands. Everyone
who plays poker will recognize characters of this
film, he said. Both James and Michael Christian,
executive producer, are neophytes in film making. "The
Big Blind" is their first endeavor.
Certainly too, they will recognize co-stars Scotty
Nguyen, the aggressive and gregarious winner of the
Las Vegas World Series of Poker, and Jennifer Harman,
a $1 million-a-year poker player and generally
recognized as the world's best woman Texas Holdem
poker player.
The film takes its name from the "blind," cards hidden
from the players and unknown as they place their first
bets. The blind is a metaphor for the uncertainties of
life and each individual's need to face the future
unaware of its potential and its interrelationship
with the actions of others.
