The term rounder refers to a person traveling around from city to city seeking high-stakes card games. The story follows two friends who need to win at high-stakes poker to quickly pay off a large debt.
However, with the growing popularity of Texas hold ’em and other poker games, Rounders has become a cult hit. The movie opened to mixed reviews and made only a modest amount of money. The term “rounder” refers to a person whose sole means of earning a living is by playing cards. The playing cards used during both games at KGB’s place are a deck of red and a deck of blue backed Arrow-design, standard index, wide plastic cellulose-acetate cards of the KEM range manufactured by the United States Playing Card Co. In a way, it is just another bluff or manipulation of the other players on the table. The idea of Teddy KGB’s tell is to set in the mind of the opposite player of a move that he might make or the hand he’s playing.
Teddy KGB’s tell is related to the action of splitting his Oreos to symbolize something. What is Teddy KGB holding during the final hand of heads up, when Mike flops the nut straight? Although Teddy KGB’s hand is never revealed to the audience, the general consensus is that perhaps he was holding pocket Aces.
