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After seven years of confinement, cockney gambler Jake Green is finally freed from prison. Two years after his release, he has his brother Billy go to one of the most important casinos in the area to get back the money they are owed by the owner crime boss Dorothy Macha. Ignoring his bodyguard Paul's advice he allows Jake to join his private game.
On his way up, Jake hesitates to the elevator because of his claustrophobia, but the other bodyguards remind him they must climb twenty floors. So he gives in and takes the elevator while fighting a panic attack. Jake's first bad is on a chip toss against another player at the table which he loses but this is on purpose he's manipulating Macha into a sense of false security so when he makes the same bet with him, he wins this time Billy and Jake hurry to leave the casino with their bags full of cash.
On their way out they are stopped by Zach who tells them they're in danger, and that he can help them before giving Jake his card this time Jake decides to take the stairs but before he can even go down one step he passes out and falls as the card is revealed to say, take the elevator. While Jake is rushed to the hospital, Macha expresses his worries to Paul,
Jake must one bigger revenge after seven years in jail especially after the incident with his sister-in-law. So Macha orders Paul to hire the best hitman in the business to get rid of him.
At the hospital, Jake is told no cause for the blackout could be found at first glance, so he should go home and rest while waiting for the blood test results.
Billy goes to his own house, while Jake takes the bodyguards for protection but all of them are shot as soon as they arrive. The only reason why he manages to dodge is that he finds a card on the floor that says pick this up. So he bends over to do exactly, he tries to escape in his car but the driver is shot too luckily for him Zach arrives just in time to save him and take him away.
The hitman sorter can't understand how he missed since he never misses and theorizes someone must have tipped Jake off. what he tells Macha when he scolds him however is that he missed because he had a bad feeling.
Meanwhile, Zach takes Jake to meet his partner Avi, who has somehow put his hands on Jake's medical file, the test results show that Jake has a rare blood disease that will cause his death within three days, the men offer Jake their protection in exchange for two conditions which are not negotiable. He must give them all their money and do anything they ask for including answering any questions, they are given three hours to decide. But Jake leaves without saying a word because he's convinced they're trying to trick him. The results he gets from the hospital are the same ones, Jake once again thinks the lab must have been paid by Zack and Avi, so he gets a second opinion from his private doctor who also gives him the same prognosis after threatening him with his going to make sure he isn't also being paid, Jake admits he has no choice and after taking money from the bag, goes back to accept the men's deal. As they go out for a ride, Avi explains to their loan sharks that it'll be Jake's money that they'll be loaning after visiting their first client to drop the money. Avi demands Jake to tell him all about his history with Macha. Macha used to have three very stupid men working for him called the three "Eddies" They lost their card man before a big game and knew Jake was a good player, so they called him to replace him. Jake wanted to refuse but they threatened Billy's family so he had to accept to protect them during the game however, the other man on the table began insulting Jake and his mother Jake wouldn't accept that so he started a gunfight the power went off the money disappeared and the next thing he knew someone dropped his name and Jake was being questioned by the police to keep him from talking they threatened his niece and accidentally killed his sister in law when she tried to protect her daughter. Jake didn't tell the cops who organized the games and was sent to jail for seven years.
During that time, the Eddies upset Macha in some way which resulted in him using them as concrete. After visiting a bunch of clients, Zach's sense Jake stayed at a motel while Macha and Paul visited crime kingpin Sam Gold considered the ultimate figure all other crime bosses want to be like. However Gold never received visitors, so instead they meet with his advisor Lily Walker who accepts to broker a powder deal with Macha. She also reminds him that Gold doesn't like publicity or give second chances. Sometime later, Jake gives Zack and Avi more money before he asks about his time in jail while playing chess with Avi. Jake had been given two options fourteen years of normal time or seven years of solitary, so he chose solitary. His cell was between two men a chess master and a con man who had been there for a long time and while they never talked to each other, they knew everything about each other. During the first five years of Jake's sentence, the three of them would communicate by sending messages written in the library books and that was how Jake learned their formula to win any game in the world. The two men were planning a prison break and promising to take Jake with them but when they finally left they disappeared without a word and left Jake behind. When he was released, two years later he found out those two men had taken all his money and only left behind a note that said you can only get smarter by playing a smarter opponent so Jake started using the formula to make himself Richer in various casinos.
As the days pass Jake continues working by visiting various clients and giving away his own money, he's also supposed to threaten them if they don't pay but he can't bring himself to hurt innocent desperate people.
Meanwhile, Avi and Zach chain the side of a wall to a truck so when they pull, they break said wall and steal the safe on the other side.
This safe has the powder Macha had promised Lily, so when he finds out he's been robbed, he sends Paul to solve this no matter what it takes.
Paul goes to see their rival triad kingpin lord John who accepts to provide them with the powder on such short notice, but only for an over-inflated price. Jake Zach Avi and their team go to the hotel where the exchange will happen, they sneak into a room next to the thugs to make a hole in the wall and inject sleeping gas putting both Macha's and John's men to sleep, then they steal the money and the powder framing it to make it look like it was Macha that rob John and vice versa.
Sometime later, Jake gets a call from Billy who tells him he's been asking around and has found out that Zack and Avi are so dangerous that not even Gold would touch them, so Jake should get out of there.
Jake doesn't listen and goes back to work where he's being expected to shoot a scared client, he refuses and tries to shoot Avi instead but he realizes the gun is empty right before Avi knocks him out. Jake wakes up hours later in the motel and gets a call from Avi saying he survived his third day so he should get a checkup. After being visited by his niece and Billy who leaves him a gun just in case. Jake goes to see a doctor who confirms the diagnosis has been wrong and Jake is fine. He tries to call Avi and demand answers but Avi only says he'll have to wait.
Meanwhile, Paul has been gathering information and Jake's name has come up as being involved in all the problems his men have been going through, so Macha orders him to kill him. when Jake returns to the motel Avi and Zach are waiting for him and warn him that much as torgs are waiting inside the room.
Jake runs away and the Men go after him but he manages to lose them especially when one of the thugs slips and shoots himself by accident
the other criminals find the body and think Jake did it. Jake goes to see Avi and Zach in their office where they confess they've always known Jake didn't tell them the whole truth about his old deal with the Eddies, those three clowns had been waiting for Jake when he got out of prison to kill him since what he did cause them to get fired by Macha. To save his life he offered the Eddies a deal every month he would give them 3% of any money they would lend them. The first time only one Eddie agreed to it but when they saw he kept his deal they all wanted to be in, this time for 4%. In truth, Jake was paying each Eddie with another of his money so he wasn't losing anything. It came to a point where they didn't have any more money to lend, so they borrowed from Macha who quickly became interested in Eddy's mysterious moneymaker man.
After gambling with the formula and making himself rich, Jake chooses that moment to take a vacation with his brother and niece and that is when Macha kills the Eddies for not paying him back.
Speaking of Macha, he's having dinner at a fancy restaurant when he's visited by the henchmen who tell him Jake escaped. sorta recognizes John's lover pretending to be a waitress, so he shoots her before leaving the restaurant to go after her driver.
However, his shooting is still off and he only got to hurt her not kill her. so before dying, the woman manages to shoot a finger off in the middle of the commotion The sorter is essential to Lord John's hideout to kill him and his men. Back to Jake, he still chatting to Zach and Avi while they play golf on a roof. They explain to him that nobody ever gets to see Gold because he does not exist, he's just a representation of ego in the personification of greed, and he only has power over those who are in it. So what Jake needs to do is change the rules of what he allows to control him.
Afterward, Jake takes the rest of his money from the bank and donates the title before sneaking into Macha's bedroom while fighting with the voices in his head that represent his ego, Jake apologizes to Macha for the tricking amount of his money, accepts him as the superior crime lord and tells him he's donated in his name before leaving to confront his fears. Jake takes the elevator which gets stuck on the thirteenth floor, while fighting off a panic attack, he has a conversation in his mind in which he rejects his ego, finally stepping out of the game as a free man.
Once the elevator begins working again, Jake reaches the ground floor and finds Macha waiting for him with a gun, driven crazy by his ego however Jake is at peace with himself and simply walks past him which drives him mad because he can understand how someone won't fear him.
He begins crying as he understands how thoroughly humiliated he's been.
The next morning, Paul brings Macha all the local newspapers for him to see his name plastered all over them, Jake hadn't been lying when he said Donnon and Macha as his name, and now everyone thinks the casino owner cares about the community. Macha is happy to take the credit but his happiness is short-lived. Paul also informs and that Jake has the powder and he's been playing to them all along. Paul, the sorter, and the rest of Macha henchmen go visit Billy who
manages to hide his daughter in the cupboard when he realizes one of his bodyguards has betrayed him.
Once he is found, the men begin hurting him while interrogating him not believing when he says he doesn't know where Jake and the powder are. Paul's methods are quickly escalating and sort of starts feeling uncomfortable especially when they make the girl come out of the cupboard after they hear her.
Sort refusing to hurt a child, Sort rejects his ego and begins killing his fellow henchmen methodically and effectively but he makes a mistake at the end and gets killed too. Meanwhile, Macha is visited by Lily, she brings him wreaths sent by Gold who isn't happy with seeing Macha's name all over the newspaper since he doesn't like publicity. Lily also informed him that much as time is over and won't have a second chance which sends him into another panicking frenzy.
Avi and Zach take Jake and the powder to Macha's casino where Avi finally beats Jake at a game of chess while confessing the last few details of the story.
Zach had been the man in the cells next to Jake's and they always wanted to take him away with them but he hadn't been ready to accept the truth implying they had been nothing but merely figments of Jake's imagination.
Unfortunately, he doesn't have time to come to terms with him because of that moment the casino's bodyguards come to take him to see Macha who has the girl with him.
After dropping the bags of powder on the floor Jake tells his niece everything will be fine which drives Macha mad because Jake is still showing no fear even when he's pointing a gun at the child. Humiliation causes the ego voice in as much as the mind to conclude that Jake can't hurt a dead man, so he puts the gun against his head and sho.s..
The End
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