You got beat. Beat bad. Some would call it a bad beat, in fact. Or a 'cooler', even - when your excellent hand is beaten by an even excellenter hand. But Steve McQueen takes it on the shoulder, on the chin, without blinking an eye, however you like it - he knows he got beat. And that's that. If it makes you feel any better, the chances of a full house and a straight flush happening like that (with them both having tens in there, too) stand at 332,220,508,619 to 1 (more than 332 billion to 1 against). And despite all that, he stands up and leaves, just like that. What a poker player. What a man.

The players: Eric "The Kid" Stoner (Steve McQueen) against Lancey "The Man" Howard (Edward G. Robinson)

Decisive cards: Full house, aces full of tens against a queen high straight flush in diamonds.

Key tactics in this strategy:

	Play with cash. It makes you look extra manlier when you're definitely not about to cry.
	Remember that you couldn't have played it any other way. The odds were so high in your favour you'd have been even more of a fool to not have called him.
	Keep a hanky handy for when you fancy a quick blub in the loo afterwards.

Watch the scene on YouTube.