Because ultimately a guest could say, ‘That wasn’t my hand.’ So that is not a normal procedure. In this scene, the dealer’s like taking each guests hand and adding it to the board, which can also cause problems. All those players are professional poker players they would instantly see each others’ hands and know who’s the winner. What would happen is the players would flip over their hands show what they would have. This is also something that you would not do. That’s the same reason that the other big flub pointed out by Dustin Boshers happens to be in the film, as he also pointed out this no-no of professional card playing: But when a movie like Casino Royale dedicates quite a bit of screen time to such an enterprise, you need to keep it interesting. Sure, if you were actually playing No Limit Texas Hold ‘Em, you wouldn’t be calling all of this action out. And as you’ll see in the clip included below, there’s quite a play-by-play nature to the pass time that makes for a pivotal plot device in Craig’s first film in the tuxedo: As that particular card game was seeing quite a bit of popularity attached to itself, it only made sense to have Daniel Craig, Jeffrey Wright and Mads Mikkelsen playing a five card draw to the death. It’s one of the reasons why instead of featuring James Bond’s traditional game of choice, Baccarat, the 2006 relaunch switched to No Limit Texas Hold ‘Em. In those really high-end games, the dealer is not going to say a word unless they have to because they know what kind of money is being played on the table.ĭustin Boshers is absolutely right when it comes to Casino Royale trying to make the world of big money gambling a little more accessible to a common theatrical audience. The player says check, so this is way out of character. You’re not gonna have a dealer sitting there going, ‘He checks, he checks, he checks.’ No. Especially in a high-end game like this, these are all professional poker players. I think they’re doing this for cinematic reasons, but the dealer is talking way too much.

In terms of where Casino Royale’s 2006 reboot of the Bond series gets it wrong, here’s where Dustin Boshers started his takedown: As Red Rock Casino’s Casino Operations Director, Boshers knows the ins and outs of that sort of thing, and he applied his professional gaming acumen to other high stakes films, like Ocean’s Eleven, 21 and Casino. In a recent episode of GQ’s web series The Break Down, guest Dustin Boshers broke down how Casino Royale’s poker scenes got it absolutely wrong.

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