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Unrealistic Poker hand

posted 10 years ago by islamovicedin-650-816751
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First of all...it goes from lowest to best hand, they wait way too long to show their cards. I would love to be involved in a hand like this holding a straight flush and all my opponents had a strong hand :)

[–] KingCobra686 9 years ago

007 getting a lucky poker hand is a lot more realistic than all of the other crazy stuff that has happened in the other movies.

I am usually all for realism, but not in this case. If one of the exciting parts of the movie is a poker game, they better be throwing down big bets on dramatic, unrealistic hands. Would you really have preferred to see Le Chiffre slowly lose chips to Bond over a couple hours and then get finished off by a pair of 10's? Thats like watching an underdog basketball movie where they lead by a solid 20 points the whole game and casually win with no buzzer beaters or crazy shots.

[–] xyle666 9 years ago

this is a reply to the whole thread and not really the first poster.
so let me get this straight, people are upset that in a fictional movie, a fictional hand of poker happened? did y'all get mad when Sigourney Weaver turned out to not really be ripley and that those aliens weren't real? or maybe there was some anger that tom cruise really doesn't have a hundred lives like in edge of tomorrow. i know that i was mad after watching the 5th wave and i found out that we weren't really being invaded. damn movies lieing to us all the time, its just like those damn sci-fi and fantasy novels betraying us into thinking that they are real. did yall know that deadpool was really just ryan reynolds in a suit? turns out he's just an actor and cant re-grow his body parts.

[–] spongyryno 9 years ago

So, you're watching a Bond film expecting realism?

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[–] sage2112 8 years ago

A thread built for all you self-proclaimed poker Yodas.

[–] DracTarashV2 (4497) 5 years ago

Nailed it! LMAO

Oh, people...

[–] chet19 8 years ago

And another thing...yes, I know that poker lovers believe that nonsense about playing your opponent not your hand.

But when Bond tried to play the opponent, he lost. Twice. LeChiffe fooled him the first time and gave away his tell. Then fooled him a second time by changing his tell.
When Bond played his hand, he won.

Bottom line: a straight flush beats a full house, no matter what body language your opponent uses.

[–] mlspaur 8 years ago

What cracked me up the most about the poker tournament was Bond giving the dealer a $500,000 tip at the end of the game, and the dealer acts as if he had been handed a roll of quarters.

EDIT - a half hour after I posted the above, it hit me. Could the dealer have been in on it? Did Bond have the dealer manipulate the cards so that each player got piss-your-pants great hands, while making sure that Bond got the win?

That's the only rationale I can fathom for giving the dealer a half million dollar tip.

[–] islamovicedin-650-816751 8 years ago

The $500,000 tip is one of the funniest scenes I have ever seen. The dealer's face is priceless.

[–] LordBAElish (2015) 6 years ago

It wouldn't happen in real life. Too many good hands. Was Bond the actual chip leader when Le Chiffre went all in?

[–] Callahan7 (1202) 2 years ago

Anyone even remotely familiar with tournament poker would know this scene was awful.

Maybe the director (Martin Campbell) didn't know dick about poker and thought it would be good drama. A major fail.

Other than this scene it was a good film.

A good cast.