Reality Poker Film, 'The Big Blind' Released for Internet DVD Sales

LAS VEGAS, July 27 /PRNewswire/ -- "The Big Blind," the world's first reality-based poker movie, is now available on DVD through internet sale -- a distribution system as unique as the film's financing, production and storyline -- the film is funded by winnings of the its writer/director and executive producer, and tells its tale through vignettes based on real poker players.

"The Big Blind" is available for purchase over www.thebigblind.com. The site also provides a synopsis of the film as well as reviews from what would seem to be unlikely sources -- championship poker players and columnists of card and gaming magazines rather than entertainment writers.

"I was amazed that someone has finally made a really, really accurate film about us. It was funny, entertaining and most of all accurate," said Phil Hellmuth, a nine-time World Series of Poker champion. Hellmuth's review was typical of the accolades directed to "The Big Blind."

Certainly too, they will recognize co-stars Scotty Nguyen, the aggressive and gregarious winner of the Las Vegas World Series of Poker, and Jennifer Harman, a $1 million-a-year poker player and generally recognized as the world's best woman poker player.

The film takes its name from the "blind," cards hidden from the players and unknown as they place their first bets. The blind is a metaphor for the uncertainties of life and each individual's need to face the future unaware of its potential and its interrelationship with the actions of others.