Liar's Poker - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

• In his 1989 book Liar's Poker, Michael Lewis details how Salomon Brothers traders would play liar's poker.
• A version of liar's dice is played in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest between Will Turner, Bootstrap Bill, and Davy Jones.
• A game of liar's poker was played in an episode of the TV series Hustle (Season 3, Episode 3) where one of the main characters plays and loses against two merchant bankers.
• Characters on the show Quincy M.E. were often seen playing Liar's poker.
• Anne O Faulk's "Holding Out" uses the game as a plot point.
• In the 1977 movie Semi-Tough, Burt Reynolds' and Jill Clayburg's characters play an ongoing game of liar's poker periodically throughout the movie.
• In the 2011 movie Hall Pass, the group of characters play a game.
• Elliott Gould's and Jim Bouton's characters play a round as friends in the beginning of the 1973 neo noir film, "The Long Goodbye".
• In The Wire episode Dead Soldiers, Tommy Carcetti and Anthony Gray play a game.
• In the 1965 film " Cat Ballou " the sheriff is confronted playing Liar Poker at the barn dance