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[thecasinoroyale]

Hey guys.

 

Sorry, I know this isn't anything major, but it's come to light once more in my brain and I still can't work it out.

 

I'd love your views or take on a certain scene to help me if I've missed something or it's something a little of a hole.

 

 

It's the scene where Bond, Elektra and Valentin are in Casino Noir D'or and take to the cards to initiate the payoff between Elektra and Valentin.

 

It's a staged game, to enable the $1m to be handed over, I get that.

 

BUT what I can't work out is the way she still loses after Bond makes the dealer bury the top 3 cards...or is it 2, sorry...

 

Valentin still gets his ace of clubs and Elektra the Queen.

 

Did they assume Bond would do this to the certain number and rigged the cards, or are we just meant to accept in the Bond world Valentin "won" because the plot needed him to, no explanation.

 

Sorry...probably thinking into this too much, it just always bugged me.

 

[Messervy]

Interesting indeed; never thought of it this way actually.

I'm afraid that now you've raised the issue, I don't have any straightforward answer... Perhaps the whole deck was rigged and the cards were somehow all marked, so that a very skilled dealer could do pretty much as he pleased?

[AMC Hornet]

Or, if Elektra won the first hand, she would have gone double or nothing until she lost.

 

If Bond hadn't been there she would have simply handed over the million. The game was solely for Bond's benefit.

[Binyamin]

I think the idea is, that's how Zukovsky is paid off by most of his outside-the-law customers....

If someone like Elektra just handed a check over, that raises red flags.

But, there's plausible deniability if she "loses" it in the casino.

Money launderers have similar schemes in real life -- a "front" business allows them to explain where the cash is coming from, even though the actual source is shady.

[glidrose]

Remember that Clive Own pic "Croupier"? In one scene a shady woman puts money on red and black.

[AMC Hornet]

That's when 0 comes up...

[thecasinoroyale]

Ahh I see. A few theories there. It just always bugs me.

 

Thanks for your input guys!