Awkwafina to play most successful female gambler in history in The Baccarat Machine
The Golden Globe-winning actor and comedian is set to star inCrazy Rich Asians
— is inspired by the “incredible true story of the most successful female gambler in modern history, Cheung Yin ‘Kelly’ Sun, and her unlikely partnership with legendary poker player Phil Ivey.”Cigar Aficionado , the gambling and revenge drama follows the young Chinese woman “who turns a painstakingly developed talent and obsession for payback into beating the system at their own game,” according to a press release. After major casinos attempted to blacklist Sun from gambling, she partnered with the international “King of Poker” Ivey to take down the system from the inside using “subterfuge, ingenuity, and pure daring, resulting in one of the most ingenious legal gambling runs ever documented.
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