Theory 11: James Bond 007 - Playing Cards

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Hargrave, Catherine Perry (1966). A History of Playing Cards and a Bibliography of Cards and Gaming. United Kingdom: Dover Publications.

It was difficult to think how you keep the audience engaged in those card games,” the movie’s editor Stuart Baird says. “Everybody was terribly worried that people would be bored with it.” 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. Scarne, John (1986). Scarne's new complete guide to gambling (Fully rev., expanded, updateded.). New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0671630638. 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.Whether it's his perfectly tailored suit or the impeccable timepiece clasped to his wrist, Mr. Bond commands your attention when 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! David Parlett considers Macao as the immediate precursor to baccarat. [27] Its name and rules suggest it may have been brought over by sailors returning from Asia where similar card games have been played since the early 17th century such as San zhang, Oicho-Kabu, and Gabo japgi. [28] Macao appeared in Europe at the end of the 18th century and was popular for all classes. Its notoriety led to King Victor-Amadeus III banning it in all his realms in 1788. [29] It was the most popular game in Watier's, an exclusive gentlemen's club in London, where it led to the ruin of Beau Brummell. The match in Arthur Schnitzler's 1926 novella Night Games ( Spiel im Morgengrauen) contains instructions for Macao under the name of baccarat. Its popularity in the United States waned after the early 20th century. [30] The game still has a following in Continental Europe, especially in Russia. James Bond plays chemin de fer at the Estoril Casino in Portugal in the 1969 movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service. He is accompanied by Tracy di Vicenzo (Diana Rigg), the woman he eventually marries. Bond wins the game and wins a large sum of money. 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 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 ] Before he began shooting Casino Royale in Prague, Campbell devoured gambling classics like The Cincinnati Kid and 5 Card Stud. He had to understand the game on a molecular level and leaned on veteran producer Michael G. Wilson, who also served as an informal poker consultant, to teach him the ins and outs. 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!

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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. 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.