Parlett, David (1990). The Oxford Guide to Card Games. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 81–82. ISBN 978-0-19-214165-1. In contrast, the tie bet which pays 8-to-1 has a high house edge of 14.4%. [15] Most casinos in the United Kingdom pay the tie at 9-to-1, resulting in a house edge of approximately 4.85%. [16] von Leyden, Rudolf (1978). "The Naksha Game of Bishnupur and its implications". The Playing-Card. 6 (3): 79.

In Thunderball (1965), Bond faces SPECTRE’s Emilio Largo at Café Martinique, Paradise Island in the Bahamas. Bond hints at knowing Largo’s allegiances and the ‘SPECTRE of defeat’ before taking his money. Despite winning, Bond bows out to buy a drink for Domino and passes control of the shoe (the card holder which is moved around the table during play). Each punter continues to hold the cards for their side so long as they win or tie. If they lose, the next hand is dealt to the player next following them in rotation. There was a lot of [card] playing in it,” he tells Polygon. “It was the thing I sweated on more than anything else.” Should both the player and banker have the same value at the end of the deal the croupier shall announce "égalité — tie bets win." All tie bets will be paid at 8-to-1 odds and all bets on player or banker remain in place and active for the next game (the customer may or may not be able to retract these bets depending on casino rules). From the word go Ian Fleming established James Bond as an expert card player when M sends him to Royale-les-Eaux in an attempt to bankrupt SMERSH operative Le Chiffre at the baccarat tables.

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From the script alone, Sambrook knew that Purvis, Wade and Haggis had “clearly played poker” and that the cards built the drama effectively. But the characters’ betting strategy, specifically when LeChiffre eliminates Bond from the table, had flaws. In the original script, Bond moves all-in once he sees LeChiffre’s tell. In actuality, Sambrook recognized, Bond would have teased his opponent until the last bet, trying to coax more chips, if he really thought he was bluffing. “That had to change,” Sambrook says. “I put in [the script] that Bond does the teaser re-raise, inducing the big all-in. It took maybe six weeks to get that up to Martin Campbell [...] I said, ‘You’ve got to read this,’ because most people won’t know or care, but there will be hardcore poker players that will just say, ‘They’ve done it again. Why can’t they get this stuff right?’”

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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ICONIC GADGETS. A closer look inside will reveal several gadgets that have been featured in your favorite Bond films: the pen grenade from GoldenEye, Bond’s trusty Walther PPK, the ski pole gun from The Spy Who Loved Me, Jinx’s knife from Die Another Day, and much more! The victory is emblematic of the new Bond — he’s not flashy or obvious. “He wins with an inconspicuous straight flush, rather than the royal flush,” Sambrook says. Over the nearly 15 years since the movie’s release, the improbability of each player’s decision to risk everything has been debated over Reddit and by other poker players. But Sambrook, who advised Campbell on the sequencing of bets and bluffs, stands by the improbable scenario as a highly enjoyable cinematic pay-off.

This numbered replica set contains 37 cards - 27 cards used in production (including two recently rediscovered cards which were thought to have been lost and have never been previously reproduced) and 10 duplicate ‘The Lovers’ cards in classic Bond style. Theory11 produces the world's finest playing cards, and these are a case study example. The box features two layers of gold foil, with a In a similar variation called EZ-baccarat, even money is paid on both winning banker or player bets, except when the banker wins with a total of 7 after the third card is drawn, which results in a push on banker bets. The game has two additional options, the Dragon 7, a specific bet of a winning three-card 7 on the banker side, which pays 40-to-1 instead of pushing, and Panda 8, a bet of a winning three-card 8 on the player side, which pays 25-to-1. [25] Chemin de fer [ edit ] Baccarat - Wizard of Odds". wizardofodds.com. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017 . Retrieved 20 November 2017. In the movie Dr. No, Bond mentions the name of "Chemin De Fer" when he and Sylvia Trench walk to the cashier in Le Cercle casino.The banker is initially determined via auctioning, i.e. is given to the player who will undertake to risk the largest amount. In some circles, the person who has first set down their name on the list of players has the right to hold the first bank, risking such amount as they may think proper.