A medical doctor, playing cards, murder

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Release date: Probably 2000-2020.

A rich medical doctor is hooked on playing poker but he’s bad at it and he evenutally loses all his money. At one point he steals some cash from his wife’s purse to be able to play.

One day though he wins a big pot. His opponent bet his car, his house and his bank account against the doctor because he was a known loser.

After he won, the doc was rubbing it in, plus the indignity of losing to a bad player and becoming destitute upset the opponent to the point that he killed the doctor.

Later this opponent had to attend a dinner in a restaurant with his son’s future bride and the bride’s parents.

The bride’s father was either played by Brian Dennehy or somebody like him.

Brian Dennehy - Wikipedia

The opponent - having lost all his money - could not pay for the dinner and that embarassed his son who said something disrespectful to his father.

Having heard this, the bride’s father proclaimed that he’s not going to let his daughter marry a guy who does not respect his parents.

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A possibility, maybe this one?:

The plot summary from its IMDb page, some details seem to fit:

”Compulsive gambler, Dr. Simon Hodiak the cardiologist, is addicted to gambling and out of friends to borrow from. When his loan-shark bookie Bennie Borashevesky threatens major violence, he sells his sports car, gets Alex to invite him to big stakes poker, wins $70,000, but loses it in a bar. Unable to pay up, Hodiak stabs his bookie to death. Steve investigates the poker players. Hodiak is found dead shortly afterward, apparently shooting himself; Mark doesn’t buy that; Alex gets barred from the game and counseled by Dr. Sloan. Mark uses police seed money to buy into the poker game; he connects one of the players to a motive for murder and helps Steve get a confession.”

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