And since the game of Baccarat is of major importance in the first James Bond novel Casino Royale, it is at least one of the most classic Bond casino games.

In the 2006 movie adaptation of Casino Royale, baccarat is replaced by Texas hold 'em poker, largely due to the poker boom at the time of filming. [37] Rush Hour 3 [ edit ]What is Bond's favorite Casino game? It might be Baccarat. 007 plays Baccarat Chemin de Fer in the movies Dr. No, Thunderball, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, For Your Eyes Only and GoldenEye. Theory11 produces the world's finest playing cards, and these are a case study example. The box features two layers of gold foil, with a Depaulis, Thierry (1994). "La bassette, entre réglementation et répression". The Playing-Card. 23 (1): 8.

Poker lessons from producer Michael G. Wilson with the cast and crew helped the writers develop an end to the card game – Neal Purvis took inspiration from one of these sessions when he lost to the same hand Bond held on screen.Parlett, David (1990). The Oxford Guide to Card Games. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 81–82. ISBN 978-0-19-214165-1. Should the bank empty, the banker may freely put more money at stake without losing their right to bank. Bond spends thirty minutes with the book to refresh skills such as the Mechanic’s Grip, Palming and Nullifying the Cut. This is not to for his own benefit, but to warn off the card cheat, Sir Hugo Drax.

The origins of the game are disputed, and some sources claim that it dates to the 19th century. [2] [3] Other sources claim that the game was introduced into France from Italy at the end of the 15th century by soldiers returning from the Italian Wars during the reign of Charles VIII. [4] [5]Burnett, P.P. (1985). "Russian Playing Card History - From the Beginnings to 1917". The Playing-Card. 13 (4): 104. James Bond plays Baccarat in the 1981 movie For Your Eyes Only. He is seen playing the game at the Achilleion Palace in Corfu, Greece. He is accompanied by Countess Lisl von Schlaf, a wealthy Austrian woman who is also a skilled gambler. Bond wins the game and wins a large sum of money. Casino Royale (2003) gives us two memorable games of Texas hold’em poker. Early in the story Bond plays Alex Dimitrios at the One & Only Ocean Club in Nassau, Bahamas. After Dimitrios stakes his DB5 on a hand of three kings, Bond defeats him with three aces and drives away the winnings with Solange in the passenger seat. 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 ] A player going bank may either do so for as many times as they like until they lose, or as a cheval, i.e. on two hands separately, one-half of the stake being played upon each hand. A player going bank and losing may go bank again, until they lose for the third time.