So with tensions at their highest and both Bond and Le Chiffre portrayed to be both skillfully deceptive and vulnerable to the other player’s ingenuity at the game, the stakes of the tournament have been laid out. However, in time Le Chiffre recognizes that he has been read, and uses this to toy with Bond in a future game. On top of this, he notices that Le Chiffre twitches his hand toward a scar on his eyebrow when he is about to bluff. All the while, Bond notices that Le Chiffre has a habit of bluffing his way through rounds where he holds weak cards. This not only paints Bond as over-confident in Le Chiffre’s mind, it builds suspense to the breaking point for the audience.
After playing a few games with Le Chiffre, it appears that Bond is to come out of the tournament as a careless and unskilled loser. Would it be possible to ever see such a game in a tournament, or was it pure Hollywood entertainment? Setting The Sceneīefore the final game is played, James Bond’s earlier interactions with his opponents was a great set-up for how the showdown would transpire.
But despite being advised by Thomas Sandbrook, questions arise about how realistic the tightly wound showdown was. The No Limit Texas Hold’Em tournament in Casino Royale is an intricately crafted game that sees Daniel Craig’s 007 come head to head with terrorist banker Le Chiffre, in an attempt to bankrupt him.
