Check out his full analysis and lackluster score for the scene out of 10 below:
Very obvious tell.
Some players more than others, especially professionals, will really stare intently at their opponents.
And we’re really just trying to gain any information.
And other players do do it for intimidation factor, maybe to make their their opponents feel uncomfortable.
Other players won’t look at you at all.
So it really depends on who you’re playing against.
So a lot to unpack here.
Bond has a full house here.
Whether he knew Le Chiffre was bluffing here or not doesn’t really matter.
That part makes sense.
Oh wait, I actually have four jacks.
I had you beat.
So that’s frowned upon.
But from a Bond villain, I guess the shoe fits.
A lot of plaques going in the middle.
The plaques being those plastic markers there.
Those are usually used in casinos, and they’re the higher denomination.
Usually it goes all the way up to chips to a certain amount.
$115 million for one hand of poker is nuts, by the way.
I would say that’s probably an order of magnitude bigger than anything ever played.
Maybe a couple eight-figure pots.
The way the dealer’s manipulating the cards there and putting them into the board, not realistic.
A dealer would would never do that.
I think it’s more for the movie.
They wanted to show how the hands would look.
Bond comes over the top.
So Bond’s hand here, the straight flush, five-seven of spades, something around 3,500-to-one to make.
So that is a rarity.
And in movies, you’re always going to see these huge hands, these statistical improbabilities.
And really the unrealistic part comes when everybody has these hands at the same time.
Where I can certainly believe someone having a straight flush and someone having a full house.
Tipping is very common in poker.
It’s a big part of the culture in cash games.
I think Bond tipping half a million dollars here after this hand is nuts.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a tip like that.
I think the most I’ve ever tipped is probably $10,000 on a poker tournament.
OK, I thinkI’d give Casino Royale three out of 10 on this scene.
The film was a hit with audiences too, with the Popcornmeter score coming in at 90%.
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