Theory 11: James Bond 007 - Playing Cards

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Unlike punto banco, which is purely a game of chance, chemin de fer includes an element of player skill. [6] :231 Baccarat banque [ edit ] What is Bond's favorite Casino game? It might be Baccarat. 007 plays Baccarat Chemin de Fer in the movies Dr. No, Thunderball, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, For Your Eyes Only and GoldenEye. Fleming features another millionaire card cheat in Goldfinger when Bond re-encounters one of the other Casino Royale baccarat players by chance at Miami airport. Over stone crabs and champagne Mr Du Pont tells Bond that he suspects Auric Goldfinger of cheating him at canasta and asks his help in finding out how he is doing it. Bond accepts for a generous fee as he was “always interested in anything to do with cards” and had been contemplating the “soft life” anyway.

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Casino Royale (2003) gives us two memorable games of Texas hold’em poker. Early in the story Bond plays Alex Dimitrios at the One & Only Ocean Club in Nassau, Bahamas. After Dimitrios stakes his DB5 on a hand of three kings, Bond defeats him with three aces and drives away the winnings with Solange in the passenger seat.

Mathematically, the value of a hand is the modulo ten value; with all numbers greater than ten, subtract 10 and return only the difference. Hart, G. D. (Director). (7 December 2017). High rollers: A history of gambling in America [Video file]. Retrieved 1 March 2019, from Punto banco has both some of the lowest house edges among casino table games, and some of the highest. The player bet has, relative to most casino bets, a low house edge of 1.24%, and the banker bet (accounting for the 5% commission on the win) is even lower, at 1.06%. Baccarat - Wizard of Odds". wizardofodds.com. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017 . Retrieved 20 November 2017. Poker lessons from producer Michael G. Wilson with the cast and crew helped the writers develop an end to the card game – Neal Purvis took inspiration from one of these sessions when he lost to the same hand Bond held on screen.Mini-Baccarat". Hollywood Casino Aurora. Archived from the original on 10 May 2017 . Retrieved 12 March 2016.