Rounders: movie monologues to shadow
20 monologues from Rounders. Original audio, one line at a time, with a pause to say it back.
- 1Full speech: hear it once
- 2Shadow: repeat each line
- 3Blind: listen, then reveal
- B27 lines
He doesn't look like much, but KGB is connected all the way to the top of the Russian mob.
Mike's table voiceoverRounders · 1998It ranks the room in three moves — the man to fear, the legend to respect, and the narrator who plans to pass them both. - C14 lines
Okay. Well, you were looking for that third three, but you forgot that Professor Green folded it on Fourth Street, and now you're representing that you have it.
The table readRounders · 1998It turns a poker table into a courtroom, naming every hand with calm, surgical confidence. - C14 lines
The truth is, I can always find games, though.
The retired player's confessionRounders · 1998He lists every game he could still find, then folds his whole past into one quiet promise. - B27 lines
Networking. Are you trying to con me now?
Jo's hustler warningRounders · 1998She moves from a concrete comparison to a single verdict: in their eyes, he will always be a hustler. - B27 lines
There's like two whole economies in there... there's cash and there's trade.
Prison Economy SpeechRounders · 1998He turns survival into a ledger, stacking cash, trade and favors until the scheme sounds almost normal. - B29 lines
Worm and I fall into our old rhythm like Clyde Frazier and Pearl Monroe.
A Cheat's Table MonologueRounders · 1998The calm voice turns cheating into craft and philosophy, making the table feel like a lecture hall. - B25 lines
I just want you to think long term, all right? Be smart.
The long-term warningRounders · 1998It stacks consequences—being marked, beaten, and shut out—until advice sounds like a sentence. - B25 lines
All right, here's the thing. You only play premium hands.
The Poker LessonRounders · 1998He turns strategy into short commands, repeating 'aggressive' until it sounds like a personal challenge. - B28 lines
For generations, men of my family have been rabbis.
The Rabbi's Son's ReckoningRounders · 1998It moves from family pride to private doubt without raising its voice, so the final admission lands hard. - B27 lines
It's depressing.
A gambler's theory of womenRounders · 1998It builds from raw hurt into a fake proverb, and the confidence is both funny and ugly. - B218 lines
These two have no idea...
Poker-table voiceoverRounders · 1998It turns poker reading into a nature documentary, making the tourists look like prey before they even play. - B24 lines
I'm not gonna sit in the can and have my friend paying down my debt.
A debtor's pride and pitchRounders · 1998He refuses charity first, then turns the listener into a partner, so the ask lands as loyalty rather than need. - B26 lines
I know all the reasons I shouldn't be here, but sometimes reasons don't matter.
Mike's Case for WormRounders · 1998It admits doubt, builds a case for a man everyone else has written off, then lands on a bare sentence of loyalty. - B26 lines
No, it's easy. The whole time I was in the joint, I was just dumping money to guards.
The Binghamton pitchRounders · 1998It lays out a con in plain steps, building from old losses to confident instructions. - B25 lines
Why different, huh? What makes you so fucking special?
Worm's Bitter OutburstRounders · 1998A run of rhetorical questions turns the blame around: why is his risk noble and mine pathetic? - C15 lines
I'm not playing for the thrill of fucking victory here.
Knish's gambler's ledgerRounders · 1998He strips the romance from poker and replaces it with rent, kids, and self-respect. - B28 lines
And he just comes right back over the top of me, trying to bully me like I'm some fucking tourist.
The Chan storyRounders · 1998It builds from a defiant re-raise to a quiet win, and the last line lands like a battle report. - B14 lines
When my mother let me leave the yeshiva, it nearly broke her.
A mitzvah, not a loanRounders · 1998He turns a loan into a mitzvah, so the money becomes a moral act rather than a transaction. - B26 lines
They're trying to goad me, trying to own me.
The safe-play calculationRounders · 1998It turns table taunts into a cold cost-benefit speech, then lands on a gambler's rule about risk. - B25 lines
The rule is this: You spot a man's tell, you don't say a fucking word.
The Tell MonologueRounders · 1998It sets a rule, reveals the tell, then adds a deadline, turning poker strategy into quiet menace.