The movie is called Playing to Win starring the not really hot but certainly fuckable Lisa Dean Ryan.
The movie is so awful that its fantastic. I advise anyone who thinks they have a problem with gambling to watch, it's a real eye opener. Hahahahahaha.
Just watched this movie and you were right it was so horrible that I ended up enjoying it. Her first experience with playing black jack results in her losing her college money. Then she just goes on a downward spiral from there.
I would have to say her biggest problem is being stupid and not gambling. Short changing her customers at her fast food job was just retarded. Everybody knows you don't steal from the customers you steal from the job. Plus the bookie ready to kill her over a $400 debt? Then that dude at the Casino trying to proposition her when she hits a losing streak? Who didn't see that coming?
But by far the best part of the movie was when she threw her varsity soccer match by giving up two late minute goals to seal the loss. Now who puts action on girls high school soccer matches? Lifetime should follow up on these gambling movies and make one that focuses on the high school bookie and he went from a 4.0 gpa math geek to school bookmaker and enforcer.