Games Gamblers Play (1974) on Netflix

Plot summary

Man serves his time as a prison laborer, and the bars do not keep him from making money through gambling. Kit is a novice at the trade, jailed after he tried to steal poker chips from a gambler at a casino. The two share a cell, find that both of them play pai gow, and become friends. Once out, Kit pitches a partnership: gamble their way to riches, starting with money he has borrowed from a loan shark. Man's worry is that they have too little capital. He tells Kit to set up a pai gow game with friends, among them Pei-pei and her husband.