How to Play Poker like James Bond in Casino Royale?

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Casino Royale is one of the most famous James Bond movies. Building the whole movie around one card game, i.e. Texas Hold’em Poker is a masterstroke. It is a movie that revolves around Poker. In the movie James Bond (Daniel Craig) accepts the mission to beat terrorist Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelson) in a high stakes Texas Hold’em tournament.

In Ian Fleming’s 1956 novel, Bond was playing high stakes Chemin de Fer, the original version of card game Baccarat. When asked the producer, Michael Wilson, why the change in the game, he explained that, “Today the big stake game is Texas Hold’em. It is not unreasonable for ten, twenty million dollar pots to be seen. So, when we came to think about what the game would be, Chemin de Fer didn’t seem appropriate, but Texas Hold’em was”. Apart from this, the fact that Texas Hold’em is the world’s most popular variant which makes it the best option to play in the James Bond movies.

In this movie, we get to look at Bond’s Poker playing strategies. He did this with usual flair and style, even after suffering a potentially deadly dose of toxin. Let’s see the strategies and techniques used by 007 in the movie. Read full blog here - How to Play Poker like James Bond in Casino Royale?