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From there things go much, much better for him, as he becomes a big winner.
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(He is cheated of course.) He leaves home in disgrace.Īfter stealing enough money to get back in action, he pursues the wiser course of nagging a great hwatu player to take him under his wing and teach him how to win, until the older man eventually gives in when he sees how serious and dedicated Goni is. He loses all his money, goes home and desperately helps himself to all the money in his family’s house, and loses all that. Like so many newbies to high stakes gambling, his early experiences are devastatingly bad. I’ve been something of a gambling man myself at times in my life, and I can say with high confidence that that is not a positive expectation scenario.īut I guess the odds seem promising enough to Goni, or perhaps, at first especially, he’s just a compulsive gambler who can’t resist the lure of the gambling world. So you’re either a sucker who goes broke because you can’t defend yourself against the cheaters, or you’re a skilled enough cheater to win and live like a playboy temporarily before having a body part or two chopped off. In fact his mentor implores him early in his career to settle for what he has won and get out now, and to chop off his own finger so he won’t be tempted to backtrack on that decision. Indeed it’s so routine that the protagonist Goni is warned multiple times that that is the fate that awaits him if he doesn’t quit as soon as possible, because that is how pretty much all serious gamblers end up. People are killed or maimed-usually getting a hand chopped off-if they’re caught cheating, or if they just piss off the wrong person or are in the wrong place at the wrong time. The high stakes hwatu world is also a very violent one. When the protagonist learns how to be an expert hwatu player from one of the best players in the country, really what he’s learning is card manipulation-dealing from the bottom of the deck and such.
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Pretty much every game these high rollers are involved in is settled by who cheats successfully without getting caught.
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Perhaps the reason it’s illegal, if this movie is to be believed, is that the game seems to be based on cheating. I also read that it’s illegal to play hwatu in South Korea, at least in public for money, though people commonly play it at home with family and friends.
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So it’s the equivalent of playing “high card.” (Or, again, maybe there’s more to it that they’re not showing.) I’m not sure of that, since the way they show it may be misleading, but it appears everyone is dealt two cards, and you bet and win based on the conventional rankings of the two-card hands-a pair being better than a non-pair, and a pair of 10s being the highest pair. The principles all play a card game they call “hwatu.” I looked it up later and that appears to be the name for the type of playing cards used in Korea rather than a specific game.īut anyway, what they play seems to be a very simplistic game based almost entirely on reading people and bluffing rather than any particular decision making with the cards. Tazza: The High Rollers is a stylish gambling film, kind of like a Korean Rounders. Had I not read in advance that it was based on a comic, nothing about this movie would have led me to guess that it was. Normally I’d have serious misgivings about a movie based on a comic book, as I associate that with mainstream, superhero action movies (i.e., the same association that makes most people respond favorably when they hear that a movie is based on a comic book), but really it’s not that kind of comic book.
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Tazza is a comic book, or graphic novel, series in South Korea.