That’s probably because we tried to suffuse Rounders with Bagels’s attitude, which was wry, wise, and full of heart. Joel Bagels, who died late Thursday, at 58, after raking in pot after pot at a local game, was the inspiration for the character Joey Knish, played by John Turturro, who somehow - having never met Joel - channeled the man, right down to the walk, the clothes, the attitude. “In the poker game of life, women are the rake.” We gave that line to Edward Norton’s Worm in the movie Rounders, but in real life, Joel “Bagels” Rosenberg said it, off the cuff, at 3 a.m., leaning against a wall at the Mayfair Club, an underground card room that used to be the center of the poker world in New York.Īnd we’ll bet you it’s not even the most colorful thing he said that night.
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