Ricky (Justin Timberlake Justin Timberlake) is a top student at Princeton University. Born with a super high IQ, he has a great talent for gambling. From a very young age, he knows how to use this advantage to earn tuition and pocket money, and thus lead a rich life without worrying about food and clothing. However, there are no wet shoes when he often walks by the river. finally, Ricky stumbles in a very important bet and loses almost all of them. Haughty, he was convinced that someone had set him up, so Ricky came all the way to Costa Rica to find the gambling king Ivan (played by Ben Affleck Ben Affleck). Ivan used the high bonus to tempt Ricky to take part in a very dangerous online gamble with him. at the same time, the FBI also found Ricky, hoping that he could help the police arrest Ivan.