Timed to be available on September 11 th, 1998 – ye, three years exctly before the World Trade Centers were attacked in New York – the Rounders novel came out to much less fanfare. Unless you’ve read the film’s novelization, that is.Īlmost as old as the movie itself, was Kevin Canty’s creation, timed for its release to appeal to fans who had already seen the movie in cinemas an afterthought, doomed to exist in the shadows of the 1998 cinematic release or a brilliant book in its own right? And whatever happened to Mike McDermott at the end of the novel? Mike was able to walk away, and so too was the movie, goes the legend. Where Rounders is criticised is only in never coming back for more. To some extent, the film was so good that it has made any attempt to make another poker movie with different characters in look pale by comparison. For a quarter of a century, poker fans have been obsessed with the movie Rounders.
