In short, despite appearances, baccarat is about as sophisticated as the card game War, or a coin flip.įleming believed that a good gambler could always win, even at a game as stiff and random as baccarat. The only decision is whether to play as the bank (“banco”), and since the bank has a slight advantage of going second, the bank player pays a small percentage to the casino to offset this advantage. There are no decisions, despite the apparent filmic tension. Worse, all actions are dictated by the rules, so you must take a card in certain circumstances and you must stand in others. It’s basically a counting game of trying to get close to 9, but once you break ten they only use the second digit, so 18 becomes 8, etc. It’s also important to understand that baccarat is not “mostly” luck, it is entirely luck. The idea was that Bond, as a good gambler, could exploit Le Chiffre’s weakness for the green felt and drain him of money, leaving him vulnerable to the very nasty people he worked with. It’s important to understand something Fleming believed in, that one could simply be a “good gambler” and fortune would flow, like luck was a controllable element of the universe. Thanks to the hosts of James Bond Radio and /u/marketto007 from for allowing us to borrow their Bond 25 graphic for our sidebar picture. r/JamesBond Project Soundtrack 2023 results r/JamesBond Project Snapshot 2022 results r/JamesBond's ranking as of September 28, 2016 r/JamesBond's ranking as of April 17, 2016 Which will result in: Shaken, not stirred REDDIQUETTE RANKING THE BOND FILMS Spoilers can be written inside posts using the following formatting: Indicate that your post contains spoilers by tagging it. Please do not include spoilers in post thumbnails or titles.

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