LeChiffre raises to $12 million, making it $47 million in the pot.īond goes all-in for $40.5 million, making it $87.5 million in the pot. The final board is A(h) - 8(s) - 6(s) - 4(s) - A(d)īond has 5-7 of spades (straight flush), the Japanese guy has a KQ of spades (highest flush) and the black guy has 8-8 (for a full house of 888-AA), and LeChiffre has the 2nd highest possible full house at AAA-66.īond checks, Japanese guy goes all-in for $6 million, Black guy goes all in for $5 million, and there's $35 million in the pot. There are only 4 players left: Bond, LeChiffre, the Japanese man, and the heavy-set black dude. He NEEDS to win the poker game, since he lost $100 million of the LRA's (Lord's Resistance Army) money through a botched investmentįast forward to the final hand.

LeChiffre is a supposed math genius and an elite-level, grandmaster poker player because of his mathematical prowess. It was a winner-take-all tournament, i.e.

I've played just enough poker to find a scene in Casino Royale to be a little more than a nitpick/head-scratcher: Now, this probably won't interest or make much sense to non-poker players, so I don't blame you if you skip it.