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In the movie The Sting, Paul Newman's character goads Robert Shaw's fictional gangster boss into cheating, which he does with a cold deck ("Stack me a cooler, Floyd!").
In the movie Ocean's Eleven, Danny Ocean accuses his partner Rusty Ryan of using a cold deck to cheat a group of Hollywood "teen heartthrobs" (cameoing as themselves) out of their money.
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