A Kid’s Game: The Story of Online Poker
Online poker turned a generation of teenagers into professional gamblers, and this film gathers the players who lived through it to explain how. Andrew "Good2cu" Robl, Peter "Apathy" Jetten, Ike "luvthewnba" Haxton, Shaun "tedsfishfry" Deeb, and siblings Di "Urindanger" and Hac "Trex313" Dang sit for interviews about six-figure winning and losing sessions, the discipline it takes to sit back down at the tables the next day, and what it does to a friendship or a marriage when someone's income depends on cards dealt by a computer. They talk through bankroll management, the specific strategies that separated the winners from the rest of the field, and the isolation of grinding multiple tables alone in an apartment while everyone else has a normal job. The film stays close to its subjects rather than the game itself, treating online poker as a career path with no rulebook, invented in real time by people who were often too young to legally play in a casino. It is a portrait of a profession built entirely inside a browser window.