A scene from Rounders 1998
Mike

[after getting thrown out of a game for cheating]

What the **** were you thinking?

Worm

I was trying to give us an edge.

Mike

I had them.

Worm

Look, I'm sorry we got banged up, I took a shot and missed. It happens.

Mike

Happens all the time around you.

Worm

And it doesn't happen to you? You're the one that flushed his whole bank roll on one hand.

Mike

Oh, **** you, man, that was different.

Worm

How is that different? What makes you so **** special? Why are all your moves so smart and noble and I'm always the idiot piece of shit? You act like you're only one with any ambition.

Mike

Then what's your ambition? I don't know, you tell me.

Worm

I don't know, I don't think like that.

Mike

No, you don't think.

Worm

No, I don't think like you, you always think you can beat the game straight up. That's not me, and I'm always going to look for that edge, always.

Mike

Alright, what's the edge now? We owe fifteen grand in a day and we're broke, what the **** do we do?

Worm

That's easy, we get the **** outta Dodge. We go on the road, we stay out of the city for a bit, this will all blow over.

Mike

Not a chance am I gonna live that way. You call Grama, you get him to stake me.

Worm

...we're not just dealing with Grama.

Mike

You said Grama was on his own. You said Grama was on his own!

Worm

KGB bankrolled him.

Mike

[scoffs]

So you just **** us right in the ass.

Worm

Yeah. So no fooling around, it's highway time.

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