Theory 11: James Bond 007 - Playing Cards

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What is Bond's favorite Casino game? It might be Baccarat. 007 plays Baccarat Chemin de Fer in the movies Dr. No, Thunderball, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, For Your Eyes Only and GoldenEye. About 91% of total income from Macau casinos in 2014 came from punto banco. [14] Odds and strategy [ edit ] 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 The cards themselves are very nice, and as mentioned the face cards are unique in that they hold weapons from James Bond films. But I couldn't shake the nagging feeling that there was a missed opportunity here. I mean, this is a licensed property, right? So they have access to the incredible, sexy, colorful world that is BOND. So many iconic images that are forever associated with the series: the Aston Martin DB5, the giant laser about to cut Bond in half, the underwater car, Jaws, the golden girl lying dead on the bed, Odd Job and his deadly derby, Blofeld with the scar across his face, the evil Dr. No... all these indelible images -- and we get the Queen of Clubs holding Jinx's knife??? It just feels like there could have been so much more... excitement. (And truthfully, it just looks like a plain old knife that the Queen is holding... I didn't know it was "Jinx's knife" until I read the promo.) Same with the Jokers and Aces, mostly featuring variations on the 007 logo. How about a Joker featuring Ian Fleming, who created the character? James Bond Playing Cards feature completely custom artwork in every aspect of the design, with the Ace of Spades, Joker, box design, and court cards inspired by iconic Bond films over the past six decades.

Let's start with the box --MAGNIFICENT! The gold foil gives a luxurious look and luster, and the embossed 3-D logo helps create an amazing visual experience. I actually turned it over and over in my hands for quite awhile before opening it. Wow! 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] In the movie GoldenEye, Bodn plays baccarat in the Casino de Monte Carlo. Xenia Onatopp (Famke Janssen) refers to Baccarat as one of their shared passions.Hargrave, Catherine Perry (1966). A History of Playing Cards and a Bibliography of Cards and Gaming. United Kingdom: Dover Publications. Henry Tamburin. "The Joys of Mini-Baccarat". Casino Center. Archived from the original on 6 November 2021 . Retrieved 12 March 2016. Baccarat". Wizard of Odds Consulting. 1 March 2011. Archived from the original on 7 June 2011 . Retrieved 24 June 2011.

The Failure of Loss Rebate Programs for High-Rollers". CDC Gaming Reports . Retrieved 24 June 2020. [ permanent dead link] 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. A closer look inside will reveal several iconic weapons and 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! Punto banco has both some of the lowest house edges among casino table games, and some of the highest. The player bet has, relative to most casino bets, a low house edge of 1.24%, and the banker bet (accounting for the 5% commission on the win) is even lower, at 1.06%. Later, we head to the Hotel Splendide, Montenegro for arguably the most iconic gaming sequence in Bond history. Here shadowy private banker Le Chiffre hosts a high stakes Texas hold‘em poker game to recoup his investor’s money and both Bond and the CIA’s Felix Leiter are staked to stop him. The epic game takes many dramatic twists and turns but ultimately leads to Bond triumphing over Le Chiffre in the final hand.

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The Tranby Croft affair in 1891 and disgraced socialite William Gordon Cumming's subsequent lawsuit were known together as the royal baccarat scandal, due to the involvement of the future King Edward VII. Since the Prince of Wales was involved in the incident, it inspired a huge amount of media interest in the game, bringing baccarat to the attention of the public at large. Accounts of the scandal in newspapers also included the rules for the game. [34] The scandal became the subject of music hall songs and a stage play. [35] A Hard Day's Night [ edit ] A player going bank may either do so for as many times as they like until they lose, or as a cheval, i.e. on two hands separately, one-half of the stake being played upon each hand. A player going bank and losing may go bank again, until they lose for the third time. I played my last game literally as the wheels of the plane hit the tarmac in Heathrow,” Sambrook says. “I won with King-high, it was just fantastic.”

James Bond first appeared on our screens in the classic 1962 film Dr. No. 58 years later, 007 is still our favorite secret agent. In celebration of the twenty-fifth installment in the beloved James Bond series - No Time To Die - theory11 proudly presents James Bond 007 Playing Cards. 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. 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. Baccarat - Wizard of Odds". wizardofodds.com. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017 . Retrieved 20 November 2017. If the banker total is 4, they draw a third card if the player's third card is 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7.Casino Royale (2003) gives us two memorable games of Texas hold’em poker. Early in the story Bond plays Alex Dimitrios at the One & Only Ocean Club in Nassau, Bahamas. After Dimitrios stakes his DB5 on a hand of three kings, Bond defeats him with three aces and drives away the winnings with Solange in the passenger seat.

And since the game of Baccarat is of major importance in the first James Bond novel Casino Royale, it is at least one of the most classic Bond casino games. 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?’” When Bond travels to Macau in Skyfall (2012), he visits the Floating Dragon Casino with Moneypenny and the chip found in Rapace’s assassin’s kit. He cashes it in – receiving a silver case full of money in exchange – meets the mysterious Severin and is confronted by Silva’s henchmen. After escaping the Komodo Dragon pit, 007 hand’s Moneypenny the case, telling her to “Put it all on red, the circle of life.” Burnett, P.P. (1985). "Russian Playing Card History - From the Beginnings to 1917". The Playing-Card. 13 (4): 104. Mini-baccarat is a version of played on a small table with smaller minimums/maximums. It is popular with more casual players, particularly those from Asia. [21] [22] [23] [24]

Starting in 1831, the company started printing playing cards. In 1940 the old De La Rue printing works at Bunhill Row in London was destroyed by air raids. From 1941 onwards the printing of De La Rue’s playing cards was undertaken by Waddingtons in Leeds. In 1969 De La Rue completely sold its playing card business to Waddingtons, a company which was bought by Hasbro in 1994.