Entertaining film with a lack of real poker knowledge

Rating: 7/10 (3 February 2018)

Just saw 'Molly's Game' and I must say it's not bad. Fantastic acting by Idris Elba and Jessica Chastain made this film quite entertaining. There are a couple of reasons why this is not an 8 or a 9. One of these is Molly's character. I felt that her character wasn't 100% likable. It wasn't so easy to warm up to her. However, by the end, you do end up feeling something.
The other reasons have to do with the poker itself. I immediately noticed a few details in the way they show or explain the game. OK, I'm not talking about cheesy and unrealistic scenes like that final hand in 007: Casino Royale. I'm talking about some of the poker jargon Molly explains to the viewer. Most of these explanations are right, but there are some words that they explain incorrectly or use in a wrong way. One example is about "the nuts", which is a very popular poker term. Not knowing what this word actually means and then explaining it on the audience on the big screen shows me a laziness by the producer/director/writer to get it right. It shows to me that this was something they knew they could get away with since most of the audience won't know the truth anyway, so they didn't bother researching it properly. The scene I'm referring to specifically is one where a player tries excruciatingly hard to get another player to fold his hand. First of all, the way he tries is something you would only see in a movie. I, however like my movies to be as accurate and realistic as possible. I want to learn something when I watch them. It's simply a far too exaggerated attempt to get the guy to fold his hand. Meanwhile the narrator (Molly) is explaining how the player ends up folding 'the nuts'. Well, the nuts would be the absolute best possible hand that anyone could hold at that moment. Unless you are completely clueless about poker, you would not fold that hand. It would be like finding out you have the winning lottery ticket but then purposely flushing it down the toilet. It just doesn't make sense.
There was another poker scene where the pot was $2.1 million and the first guy bets $200k with the player after him raising $100k more. Again, that's not possible. To raise, you must raise at least double of what the previous player bet. That is a universal poker rule.
If it wasn't for this lack of knowledge about poker, the movie would get one or two points higher from me. Why put so much effort into making a decent movie and not get the little details right?