Pass the Sugar, Poker Movie set for production

Poker used to be the game always associated with the smokey haze of a card party, reserved for those occasional get togethers nestled in between work and life where friends and poker buddies were walking a fine line. How times have changed, nowadays poker is a nightly ritual, and an international community. You can read a million and a half poker blogs on game play, from the big, tough hillbilly to the cute-and-bubbly, sexy 20-something girl. Poker is played everywhere and has even become a spectator’s game with railbirds becoming present at just about every online poker game I participate in. So with all of this attention over the past 3-4 years, it really is no surprise that we are going to get a taste of poker on the silver screen.

About Pass the Sugar

Variety reports that Gil Cates Jr. is gearing up to film Pass the Sugar, a documentary about the final table of the 2005 World Series of Poker. The nine players battled it out before “Diamond” Joe Hachem scored what was the largest prize to come out of a single poker tournament at the time. Unsurprisingly, the guy’s brother, Tony Hachem, is one of the project’s producers.

What’s sketchy about this project — the featured interviews. It seems that the doc will use discussions with celeb poker players like Jennifer Tilly and Jose Canseco. While that is certainly applicable to poker playing on the whole, it seems a bit cheesy to use them as the players with the insight, rather than the names actually involved in the big event.