A veteran poker player returns to the game to teach a young protege everything he knows. The two gamblers are driven apart by the younger man's relationship with a call girl, and end up becoming rivals when they compete against each other in the prestigious World Poker Tour. Drama, starring Burt Reynolds, Bret Harrison and Shannon Elizabeth.

As an ex-gambler teaches a hot-shot college kid some things about playing cards, he finds himself pulled into the world series of poker, where his protégé is his toughest competition.