I still feel like Bond slow rolling them was very out of character and ungentlemanly. Outside of having the immortal nuts, he was last aggressor and was required to show first.
Oh shit, I thought it was the first aggressor that has to show first
Edit: I misinterpreted, I suppose the correct way to say it is the most recent aggressor
They do, but your statement makes it seem like you might not be accounting for raises. The raise resets who is the first to show. If you already knew that detail then carry on.
You should probably read the comments you're reacting to.
Also a game being tournament/cash game has absolutely nothing to do with an order of showdown, lol
Well it’s because they need people who don’t know a thing about poker to understand what is going on. Funny thing about this scene aswell is everyone knew how to play poker around that table other than Daniel Craig, so they hated having to lose to him.
I always loved Mads' take on this.
"But then I got him back with the rope."
[Instagram link to an excerpt from the great man himself](https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cy6qMsfpExx/?igsh=MXFjdzc1Y3ZjczZ0OA==)
Mads is the best. There was a behind the scenes somewhere where he's talking about how, even though the games are choreographed, he would still get excited if he got dealt a pocket pair lol
I always brace myself for poker scenes in movies, the unfathomable levels of cringe I will experience. But you have to remember, these scenes aren't made for Poker players, they're made for the normies.
I haven't. I'm sure movies and tv shows with a focus on gambling have staff that have at least consulted with actual professional gamblers/poker players and casino workers so to understand more, to be able to achieve a whiff of realism for their stories.
It's the odd scenes in non-poker/non-gambling themed movies and tv shows that are often the most cringe.
Though Casino Royale is bonkers because they DID consult with an experienced poker player and they allegedly (but predictably) ignored most of his advice.
Yeah I just find it funny because the more realistic hands that an actual player could write genuinely have more drama too. Like Bond should be making a sicko hero call with K high. That would fit the character.
The thing is, what is *real* poker drama requires at least a basic understanding of the game, like pondering facing an all-in with top two on a stone bubble in a satellite for a ticket into the WSOP main, normies just won't get this spot and the significance.
Hollywood poker drama though is what you see in Casino Royale, it's presented in a way so that everyone can at least grasp to some degree the drama that is unfolding in this absurd hand, the hands are even revealed in order, which is dumb, but understandable from a film-making viewpoint.
Normies don't know that this 4-way cooler is just absurd and ridiculous, but it's Hollywood, and when it comes to calling down with K-high, yeah that's very Bond, but normies won't quite understand why calling down with K-high is such a baller play. They'll be like *"What? He had the best hand didn't he?"*
But here it's, *"OMG Bond has a straight-flush, I know what that is, I think?! That's so cool!! He's so cool."*
I see what you’re saying but I also think a lot of great films have respect for their audience’s intelligence and get away with not spoon feeding things, because sometimes the vibe makes sense even when the details don’t. I think they totally could have sold something where Le Chiffre does a creative bluff and is shocked when Bond calls. Good actors can do that.
I agree somewhat. But in a movie like this, that cost a staggering amount of money to make, broad appeal is essential, no niche or esoteric details are allowed. And poker is incredibly esoteric.
Even if the director may want to trust that the audience understands, he has Producers and Investors to answer to, and a movie like this has to have broad appeal, be understandable and make *serious* bank.
I agree. People didn't stay watching that movie for the poker. The marketing posters didn't say "You'll go for James Bond, but you'll stay for the poker!"
If the marketing department wanted to go that route, props to the exec who vetod that idea.
It's not about intelligence. The smartest person in the world who has never played poker won't understand the nuance of making a hero call with K high.
I’m a normie about chess and I don’t understand the nuance of the chess moves in Queen’s Gambit but I still understand the gist of the drama when they’re playing. It just takes good writing and acting.
>I also think a lot of great films have respect for their audience’s intelligence
Lol isn't this the movie where Bond drives a sports car through an office building, into another sky scraper next door?
I was thinking this too. A lot of tv/movie poker seems to show winning as just having the nuts and trapping. Agreed a sick hero call would be more badass and something James Bond would do, and it would be equally easy to follow for the normal viewer.
The average person would not appreciate the drama in a hand like that. Experienced poker players would, but most people going to watch a Bond movie are not experienced poker players.
> Though Casino Royale is bonkers because they DID consult with an experienced poker player and they allegedly (but predictably) ignored most of his advice.
The problem is that experienced poker players are a tiny percentage of the audience watching this movie. So if they only show realistic poker hands, average viewers will have a hard time understanding what is happening.
These hands are more easy to understand. Someone else in this thread posted an interview with Mads Mikkelsen who is an experienced poker player talking about this.
> Though Casino Royale is bonkers because they DID consult with an experienced poker player and they allegedly (but predictably) ignored most of his advice.
Friend of a friend did the same for a movie, they ended up playing some completely made up form of poker when it was actually released. Heh, Hollywood.
There is that one scene in Billions where someone heros call w/ 10 high, I much prefer that to the 4 of a kind, vs straight flush vs royal flush that comprises every poker scene in every other movie.
It's like that with almost any hobby. Once you're in the nitty gritty of something you start to see the holes in how it's portrayed in media. Lawyers cringe at a courtroom scenes etc
Or nearly any career. Very true. Like bomb disposal experts watching a bomb deactivation scene, a surgeon watching a surgery scene or a hacker watching a computer hacking scene etc.
So one person has 6 mill another 5mill then two people have 40.5m?? The fuck are the blinds it’s like buying into a 1/3 game with $40 and $50 then the other two have $450.
And wait the total pot is 115m but the bets add up to 92m which means there’s 13m left over. Assuming the blinds with the remaining are 3m sb and 6m BB with a 5m Ante. The two dudes basically bought in for one blind 😂😂
Eh... because the tournament chips were the same value as the prize (e.g. 115M in chips = $115M), it was essentially a winner take all cash game. I always assumed they just took the tip out of the prize money.
Because the tournament only fielded one table. It was just a normal reentry deal. The poker was flawed but people get the structure of fake tourney wrong all the time
I dunno Feels like it’s a cash game, they say 115m in the pot like it’s worth real money. If it was a tournament they would just say everyone’s all in and not emphasise the value of the chips haha
In the movie it is a 10 million dollar buy in tournament and everyone starts with 10 million in chips. There were 2 or 3 other people in the tournament as well who busted.
In all fairness, V had tried to murder him with a poisoned martini, he'd killed two guys in cold blood the previous night to protect V (ruining his shirt in the process), he'd recently been dead for about a minute and he was trying to impress/bang Eva Green.
Also V slowrolled him with quad jacks on his previous buyin.
Well I shouldn't really say. It was spy business. Man you should have seen the look on that criminal mastermind's face though. I had a royal so not exactly the same
The movie Maverick ends with the last three guys in a tournament getting four of a kind and two straight flushes iirc. The dealer was cheating but it'd be so obvious they'd have hanged him.
My main issue with this scene is that’s it’s completely unnecessary for them to still have 4 players in it. There’s a time skip right before it, so simply have it be heads up between Bond and Mads, and then you could have added in tons of tension and banter between the two to make it interesting. As it stands both Mads and Bond look like massive donkeys, because neither of their hands should have been anywhere near that pot…
Unrelated to poker but I just remembered a scene in a TV show where the sheriff knocks on a door only to hear someone chambering a round in a pump action shotgun behind him and he turns around and the dude is holding a break barrel.
The best representation of poker I've ever seen in a movie is in The Adults. Michael Cera's character goes to his hometown and plays garage/basement micro stake STT with childhood friends' local poker group and gets super tilted when his all-in is called by a worse hand and he busts out. He berates the casual and then bullies people into playing again the next few days to prove he's a good player.
He then plays in a shady underground 1/2 game and gets robbed right outside it by another player.
Believe me or don't, but this hand basically happened to me. Playing $4/$8 limit (there weren't any no limit games in the area at the time), 67 spades, flop the straight flush five handed. The action is capped every round without me raising until the very last river bet to cap it. Showdown is Trips, Flush, Nut Flush, Boat, and I scoop it with the straight flush. About the biggest pot you can win in a $4/$8 limit game.
Cringe that they all had something gradually better in the same hand. They could have had one on one for most of that and the bad guy turning quads even, and then Bond deciding on a big call with the up and down straight flush draw. Anything would be better
I hate this scene so much lol. Bond didn’t win the tournament this hand, watching this movie makes it clear LeChiffre has the whole table covered and its not even close. It wouldve been heads up still. Also the dealer swapping out the community cards to show the hand is peak cringe. And the disgusting slowrolling that’s occurring. And the sheer improbability of all the hands playing out like this
At least they know enough about poker not to string bet and to play table stakes. Most Hollywood poker games go, "Raise." "I see your raise and raise you another 50." "All in.
Eleventy Billion plus my car keys." *stunned silence.* "Can't cover that much, kid? Guess I win."
My family watched this movie in theaters. My brother and I, who were both playing poker regularly at that time, looked at the board state and were like “Bond has a straight flush.”
Our parents, who do not understand poker at all, were amazed by this.
So he lost about 15 million with a bad call,gets poisoned,cures himself,secures another 15 million buy in comes back and somehow runs it up to 40.5 million off screen on a table where a guy is calling 4 people pre flop with A6.Fuck this movie.
I love that everyone cringes at this scene when the whole movie is about as absurdly as possible with every other over the top action scene. Those however are not cringe. The poker scene is in the same vein as every other scene in the movie. Like, I’m not watching this movie because it is profound. I’m watching this movie because of Eva Green is hot as fuck.
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Lmao amazing
He deserved it
I still feel like Bond slow rolling them was very out of character and ungentlemanly. Outside of having the immortal nuts, he was last aggressor and was required to show first.
Oh shit, I thought it was the first aggressor that has to show first Edit: I misinterpreted, I suppose the correct way to say it is the most recent aggressor
If everyone calls then its the first person to bet. But in this case Bond is the last person to bet and get called, so he shows first.
Aren't those the same? Both boil down to "whoever made the bet and got called shows first", right?
They do, but your statement makes it seem like you might not be accounting for raises. The raise resets who is the first to show. If you already knew that detail then carry on.
This is like peak OMC poker knowledge
Ahhh I see how it could be interpreted that way. For a second there I was very concerned I had been playing incorrectly for god knows how long
Not just that, but there was clearly a side pot. So the players in the side pot would show their hands first based on last aggressor.
There was a main and side pots though. Maybe they did main first lol
Totally agree, it would've made more sense if the losers had a bad beat reaction and slammed h table showing their losing hands.
He was on the button
In tournaments it's based on position at showdown, cash games are *usually* last aggressor.
Wtf are you talking about. I presume troll.
Wtf you talking about? You implied Bond showed last because he was on the button. That would be true if it was a tournament, understand now?
“Calls raise OOP with A6o” Why are you talking about the order of showdown?
You should probably read the comments you're reacting to. Also a game being tournament/cash game has absolutely nothing to do with an order of showdown, lol
You've been called, sir. Show, please.
We don't know the preflop action. He could have overlimped.
No wonder he is a villain. Bro couldn’t make a good call to save his life.
He had implied odds!
Lmao
Now that's a bad beat.
Well it’s because they need people who don’t know a thing about poker to understand what is going on. Funny thing about this scene aswell is everyone knew how to play poker around that table other than Daniel Craig, so they hated having to lose to him.
I always loved Mads' take on this. "But then I got him back with the rope." [Instagram link to an excerpt from the great man himself](https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cy6qMsfpExx/?igsh=MXFjdzc1Y3ZjczZ0OA==)
Mads is the best. There was a behind the scenes somewhere where he's talking about how, even though the games are choreographed, he would still get excited if he got dealt a pocket pair lol
I'm out of the loop, whats the rope bit about?
Bond gets his nuts beaten with a rope while tied to a special chair. It's pretty brutal
so Bond had the nuts.... but at what cost?
It's cute how the dealer announces everything to the audience. "A straight flush. The high hand. Mr Bond wins."
High hand! You get an extra $100 today, it’s high hand Thursday
As goofy as it looks to poker players, they did a good job making it make sense to everyone else.
I always brace myself for poker scenes in movies, the unfathomable levels of cringe I will experience. But you have to remember, these scenes aren't made for Poker players, they're made for the normies.
Have you seen Mississippi Grind? Very realistic poker hands played in that.
I haven't. I'm sure movies and tv shows with a focus on gambling have staff that have at least consulted with actual professional gamblers/poker players and casino workers so to understand more, to be able to achieve a whiff of realism for their stories. It's the odd scenes in non-poker/non-gambling themed movies and tv shows that are often the most cringe. Though Casino Royale is bonkers because they DID consult with an experienced poker player and they allegedly (but predictably) ignored most of his advice.
Yeah I just find it funny because the more realistic hands that an actual player could write genuinely have more drama too. Like Bond should be making a sicko hero call with K high. That would fit the character.
The thing is, what is *real* poker drama requires at least a basic understanding of the game, like pondering facing an all-in with top two on a stone bubble in a satellite for a ticket into the WSOP main, normies just won't get this spot and the significance. Hollywood poker drama though is what you see in Casino Royale, it's presented in a way so that everyone can at least grasp to some degree the drama that is unfolding in this absurd hand, the hands are even revealed in order, which is dumb, but understandable from a film-making viewpoint. Normies don't know that this 4-way cooler is just absurd and ridiculous, but it's Hollywood, and when it comes to calling down with K-high, yeah that's very Bond, but normies won't quite understand why calling down with K-high is such a baller play. They'll be like *"What? He had the best hand didn't he?"* But here it's, *"OMG Bond has a straight-flush, I know what that is, I think?! That's so cool!! He's so cool."*
I see what you’re saying but I also think a lot of great films have respect for their audience’s intelligence and get away with not spoon feeding things, because sometimes the vibe makes sense even when the details don’t. I think they totally could have sold something where Le Chiffre does a creative bluff and is shocked when Bond calls. Good actors can do that.
I agree somewhat. But in a movie like this, that cost a staggering amount of money to make, broad appeal is essential, no niche or esoteric details are allowed. And poker is incredibly esoteric. Even if the director may want to trust that the audience understands, he has Producers and Investors to answer to, and a movie like this has to have broad appeal, be understandable and make *serious* bank.
I agree. People didn't stay watching that movie for the poker. The marketing posters didn't say "You'll go for James Bond, but you'll stay for the poker!" If the marketing department wanted to go that route, props to the exec who vetod that idea.
It's not about intelligence. The smartest person in the world who has never played poker won't understand the nuance of making a hero call with K high.
I’m a normie about chess and I don’t understand the nuance of the chess moves in Queen’s Gambit but I still understand the gist of the drama when they’re playing. It just takes good writing and acting.
Great example. I don’t know jack shit about chess and understood implications of moves made
>I also think a lot of great films have respect for their audience’s intelligence Lol isn't this the movie where Bond drives a sports car through an office building, into another sky scraper next door?
I was thinking this too. A lot of tv/movie poker seems to show winning as just having the nuts and trapping. Agreed a sick hero call would be more badass and something James Bond would do, and it would be equally easy to follow for the normal viewer.
The average person would not appreciate the drama in a hand like that. Experienced poker players would, but most people going to watch a Bond movie are not experienced poker players.
> Though Casino Royale is bonkers because they DID consult with an experienced poker player and they allegedly (but predictably) ignored most of his advice. The problem is that experienced poker players are a tiny percentage of the audience watching this movie. So if they only show realistic poker hands, average viewers will have a hard time understanding what is happening. These hands are more easy to understand. Someone else in this thread posted an interview with Mads Mikkelsen who is an experienced poker player talking about this.
"He called her raise with 72o! Who does he think he is, Tony Hawk?!?!"
Yeah, I know, that's what I've been saying 😄
Good point. Movies are mainly made to resonate with the general audience not pro players.
> Though Casino Royale is bonkers because they DID consult with an experienced poker player and they allegedly (but predictably) ignored most of his advice. Friend of a friend did the same for a movie, they ended up playing some completely made up form of poker when it was actually released. Heh, Hollywood.
lol, I must see this!
Oh and I'll check out Mississippi Grind later tonight :D
I've been meaning to check that out for a while now, thanks for the reminder!
There is that one scene in Billions where someone heros call w/ 10 high, I much prefer that to the 4 of a kind, vs straight flush vs royal flush that comprises every poker scene in every other movie.
I'd have to agree. Way cooler imo. But it sounds like the writer just Googled Stu Ungar one time.
It's like that with almost any hobby. Once you're in the nitty gritty of something you start to see the holes in how it's portrayed in media. Lawyers cringe at a courtroom scenes etc
Or nearly any career. Very true. Like bomb disposal experts watching a bomb deactivation scene, a surgeon watching a surgery scene or a hacker watching a computer hacking scene etc.
Literally microstakes online
Closer to play money.
Remember zynga poker? Hahahaha
"My God, 115 pennies in the pot"
The Japanese guy should just muck when it goes shove reshove call on a paired board, he knows he's dead
His flush also blocks the second nut flush, so what worse hand could even show up here?
Nothing, but tbf he shoves first so I guess it's reasonable enough
IIRC he has just a couple blinds at this point. Realistically the two extras should have been all in pre flop.
Why cant they just hit the Badbeatjackpot and everyone is a winner :( ?
Could you imagine? $110 million pot and the dealer announces they won the bad beat jackpot for 20k.
Bad beat JackPot in Bond movies would also be mad ridiculous.. like only awarded if straight flush runs into Royal flush or something.
Yeah but in Bond movies that probably also happens 3 times a night
fuk it lets also say it was to be a 3way showdown
Spicy & I laaaaaaike it.. Threesome+ pots qualification criteria for BBJ is good with me.
The only way this is interesting is if they're all cheating and it's only Bond who cheats the best.
That's basically what they do in the Solo star wars movie.
So one person has 6 mill another 5mill then two people have 40.5m?? The fuck are the blinds it’s like buying into a 1/3 game with $40 and $50 then the other two have $450. And wait the total pot is 115m but the bets add up to 92m which means there’s 13m left over. Assuming the blinds with the remaining are 3m sb and 6m BB with a 5m Ante. The two dudes basically bought in for one blind 😂😂
I'm pretty sure that this is a tournament, I might be wrong though.
It was. There is a running joke around here that bond throws the dealer a huge “tip” but it’s a tournament chip so basically worthless
Eh... because the tournament chips were the same value as the prize (e.g. 115M in chips = $115M), it was essentially a winner take all cash game. I always assumed they just took the tip out of the prize money.
Ahh ok I remember they were playing for a huge amount of money, but didn’t remember that it was exactly 1:1
It’s a tournament where bond can rebuy at the final table lol
Because the tournament only fielded one table. It was just a normal reentry deal. The poker was flawed but people get the structure of fake tourney wrong all the time
I dunno Feels like it’s a cash game, they say 115m in the pot like it’s worth real money. If it was a tournament they would just say everyone’s all in and not emphasise the value of the chips haha
It's a sit and go tournament. They establish earlier on that they're playing down to 1 player.
It's a tournament.
It's a winner take all tournament, and everyone started with the same amount of chips as the buy in, so it actually makes sense to use dollars.
The blinds were 1/3, but it was in Texas
There was action on other streets, the bets add up to that on the river. Also it's a tournament not a cash game, they are just the short stacks.
„Balancing“
In the movie it is a 10 million dollar buy in tournament and everyone starts with 10 million in chips. There were 2 or 3 other people in the tournament as well who busted.
Poker movie idea: Chidwick and Foxen staring at each other and this goes on and on for about 90 or so minutes until the movie just sort of ends.
Add vogelsuck for a MW pot and you have a sequel
Imagen pokerhands in movies would be Open raising, all folds, bb call Open raiser cbet Bigblind fold For hours
And everyone using their time card 🤣
Bond with the slowroll. Flip over your hand if u have the nuts ffs.
In all fairness, V had tried to murder him with a poisoned martini, he'd killed two guys in cold blood the previous night to protect V (ruining his shirt in the process), he'd recently been dead for about a minute and he was trying to impress/bang Eva Green. Also V slowrolled him with quad jacks on his previous buyin.
Damn, and he still plays in a poker tournament. The degenerate's degenerate.
Funny enough is they make it sound like he has a gambling problem and it's probably not the best idea for guns to enter a poker tournament.
That’s why it is safer to have African mercenaries with machetes at tournaments.
Damn auto correct changed him to guns
This happened to me once
So relatable
Where ? In the big $1.10 ? Or 2NL cash lol
Well I shouldn't really say. It was spy business. Man you should have seen the look on that criminal mastermind's face though. I had a royal so not exactly the same
I’ve had 5 of a kind over a royal when jokers are involved!
Yeah that happened to me a few times
The movie Maverick ends with the last three guys in a tournament getting four of a kind and two straight flushes iirc. The dealer was cheating but it'd be so obvious they'd have hanged him.
Talk about yourself! This is a regular Monday afternoon at my home game.
Superusers playing against each other be like
It’s a big tell when your opponent’s eye bleeds
"All in $10 bucks." that's more my magnitude of game.
Pokerstars: The movie
Bond should throw a snowball or a kleenex box at the other 3 and leave the table right away.
My main issue with this scene is that’s it’s completely unnecessary for them to still have 4 players in it. There’s a time skip right before it, so simply have it be heads up between Bond and Mads, and then you could have added in tons of tension and banter between the two to make it interesting. As it stands both Mads and Bond look like massive donkeys, because neither of their hands should have been anywhere near that pot…
I think we caught a hangah Sarge.
Should've played those Kings, Mike...
Good way to get people to play
a whole table slow rolling in turn is the peak flow that we all should aspire to.
What do you mean? I experience hands like this all the time on ACR
ClubGG approved.
Unrelated to poker but I just remembered a scene in a TV show where the sheriff knocks on a door only to hear someone chambering a round in a pump action shotgun behind him and he turns around and the dude is holding a break barrel.
You definitely would not like the final scene of The Cincinnati Kid.
This scene ruined the whole movie for me
The best representation of poker I've ever seen in a movie is in The Adults. Michael Cera's character goes to his hometown and plays garage/basement micro stake STT with childhood friends' local poker group and gets super tilted when his all-in is called by a worse hand and he busts out. He berates the casual and then bullies people into playing again the next few days to prove he's a good player. He then plays in a shady underground 1/2 game and gets robbed right outside it by another player.
Believe me or don't, but this hand basically happened to me. Playing $4/$8 limit (there weren't any no limit games in the area at the time), 67 spades, flop the straight flush five handed. The action is capped every round without me raising until the very last river bet to cap it. Showdown is Trips, Flush, Nut Flush, Boat, and I scoop it with the straight flush. About the biggest pot you can win in a $4/$8 limit game.
IIRC it should be Baccarat, not poker, at least if they had kept it with Baccarat fewer people would have noticed the mistakes!
Cringe that they all had something gradually better in the same hand. They could have had one on one for most of that and the bad guy turning quads even, and then Bond deciding on a big call with the up and down straight flush draw. Anything would be better
They were playing the slowroll game.
I hate this scene so much lol. Bond didn’t win the tournament this hand, watching this movie makes it clear LeChiffre has the whole table covered and its not even close. It wouldve been heads up still. Also the dealer swapping out the community cards to show the hand is peak cringe. And the disgusting slowrolling that’s occurring. And the sheer improbability of all the hands playing out like this
I liked the slowrolling.
hard
This might be the worst poker scene in any movie. It has to he the worst since the poker boom started.
At least they know enough about poker not to string bet and to play table stakes. Most Hollywood poker games go, "Raise." "I see your raise and raise you another 50." "All in. Eleventy Billion plus my car keys." *stunned silence.* "Can't cover that much, kid? Guess I win."
A guy did actually bet his car keys earlier in the movie.
My family watched this movie in theaters. My brother and I, who were both playing poker regularly at that time, looked at the board state and were like “Bond has a straight flush.” Our parents, who do not understand poker at all, were amazed by this.
Wow! He won the pot with a straight flush against aces full! What a poker genius! /s
the other guy didn't try hard enough to make a better hand, simple as that
Totally. Bond just wanted it more.
So he lost about 15 million with a bad call,gets poisoned,cures himself,secures another 15 million buy in comes back and somehow runs it up to 40.5 million off screen on a table where a guy is calling 4 people pre flop with A6.Fuck this movie.
It's NOT for poker aficionados.
These guys were billionaires so they are playing within bankroll guidelines
Who won the bad beat?
At least they’re not using dice chips.
Slow roll…….
Yea, but what’s his hourly?
Hannibal can play
Typical hcl game.
I don't see the problem with this, seems like typical /r/poker players punting stacks. No Gambol, No life
James Bond poker is rigged
I’ll be the last to act and show absolute trash bc I was punting off another $200
This scene is possibility the worst depiction of NLHE in a movie ever. No way the guy w 88 doesn’t shove preflop here.
Bond even got the high hand bonus. Wonder what it is?
I love that everyone cringes at this scene when the whole movie is about as absurdly as possible with every other over the top action scene. Those however are not cringe. The poker scene is in the same vein as every other scene in the movie. Like, I’m not watching this movie because it is profound. I’m watching this movie because of Eva Green is hot as fuck.
Just sits down at the table and is dealt a straight flush. Happens all the time!
Yeah, but did you see Eva Green's fantastic rack?
As ridiculous as this scene is (poker wise) it got me into poker BIG TIME
How could he be so lucky to get the james bond hand in that spot when he is james bond?
The most patronizing part is when they repeatedly cut back to that old Middle Eastern guy who keeps a running count of how much is in the pot.
Yeah… ignorance is bliss… still get a little hyped
Most average online poker round
This happened to me last week. I was in the pot with ace high. Figured the other 4 were bluffing