Despite somewhat misleading announcements, Poker Face isn’t actually a poker movie. It’s a decent thriller in which poker helps develop the story, but the game itself doesn’t get much screen time whatsoever.
This isn’t to say that the movie isn’t worth watching, but it’s better to go into it knowing what to expect.
Jake Foley (Russell Crowe) is a billionaire who made his money through poker. He started off playing the game, but then developed an online poker site whose code morphed into something else, and, long story short, he and his friend sold the technology to the military.