A Chip and a Prayer

This inspiring real-life story of an amateur player putting his whole $50,000 bankroll on the line and finally getting a shot to chase his lifelong dream of winning a championship at the World Series of Poker, plays out over the brutal Las Vegas realities of fate, luck, and the fickle turn of a card.

This inspiring and captivating real-life story of an amateur player finally getting a shot to chase his lifelong dream of winning a championship at the World Series of Poker. Aspiring champion Marvin Karlins, in the summer of 2016, puts his entire $50,000 bankroll on the line and goes for broke. Written in raw candidness and self-deprecating, wry humor, Karlins' WSOP odyssey at the brutal hands of fate, luck, and the fickle turn of a card, inspires both dread and awe, with his entire dream, a chip and a prayer away.