[chris b]

Ok so I have the movie Shade, the one with Sly and some others including a brief appearance by Jamie Foxx, where they are all card cheats and try and screw each other out of money.

There are 2 scenes in the movie that bother me.

The first one involves Jamie Foxx where there are a few guys playing at this country club mansion thing, any way jamie foxx pushes all of his money in with four tens, other guy raises, then jamie proceeds to grab like 80g's out of his jacket in cash, when it appears that jamie will "buy" the pot the guy asks if his "marker" is still good and the lady says yes and the guy calls and jamie loses the money cause it was a setup and the other guy had 4 jacks.

The other scene is toward the end, where sly bets a bunch of money and this other guy doesnt have enough to call, wanting to be a gentleman and actually play the hand instead of again "buying" the hand, sly takes back some of the money to make it affordable for this guy to call.

So my question is regarding this buying the pot, is this something other than table stakes? my understanding was that if I have 100 and you have 200, you go all in, I can call with my 100 and only win 100 of your 200, but in these instances it would seem that I wouldnt even be able to play because I didnt have enough and would be forced to fold, and you would "buy" the pot...... any input?

Was it a misrepresentation in the movie? I mean the movie was alright but not great.