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[DamnCoffee]

Could anyone answer this question? In Casino Royale, are the poker players all working for Le Chiffre? just because I was watching it today and it came to my attention on how important Bond is, and I was wondering if Bond lost to one of the other players, lets just say Infante, would Le Chiffre come after him or are all the Casino Royale players (minus Bond) already working for Le. Chiffre?

[Mister Asterix]

[mra]Well that would be dumb. How

[HH007]

No, I don't think the other players were working for Le Chiffre.

[Judo chop]

My, that WAS a quick question, Mhark!

[DamnCoffee]

Wouldn't Le Chiffre, have many of his informants playing in the game? Just to be on the safe side. And anyway, even if Le Chiffre was on his own... why did Le Chiffe decide to poison Bonds drink? When he's just bought himself back in and he hasn't won hardly anything. Wouldn't you think he shoud of targeted one of the more succesfull players since Bond,(Poker wise) wasn't even a threat to Bond in that moment in time.

[HH007]

But MHark, think of the millions of dollars needed to buy into the game. From the way I understood it, Le Chiffre barely had enough to buy himself into the game, so I don't think he would be able to stake another player.

[00Twelve]

To be fair, it was Le Chiffre who set up the game. But I agree with the rest; I think Le Chiffre simply assumed he would have no threat in those other players. He knew Bond was a spy (but not Felix!), so he took him a little more seriously.

[Single-O-Seven]

But MHark, think of the millions of dollars needed to buy into the game. From the way I understood it, Le Chiffre barely had enough to buy himself into the game, so I don't think he would be able to stake another player.

That's really the best argument. If he'd had enough to stake all the others he would pretty much have the amount he needed in the first place. It is an interesting idea, though, to wonder what Le Chiffre would have done had somebody other than Bond cleaned him out. The rope torture wouldn't have worked nearly so well on the two ladies at the table.

[00Twelve]

That's what I was saying. I think he set up the game under the assumption that with his knowledge of statistics and probability, he assumed no other players would be a threat to him. THat's why we got the earlier scene aboard the yacht that demonstrated his understanding of probability and how he uses it to his advantage in poker.

[Harry Fawkes]

Could anyone answer this question? In Casino Royale, are the poker players all working for Le Chiffre? just because I was watching it today and it came to my attention on how important Bond is, and I was wondering if Bond lost to one of the other players, lets just say Infante, would Le Chiffre come after him or are all the Casino Royale players (minus Bond) already working for Le. Chiffre?

Le Chiffre dared all to win all. He actually believed he could pull such a stunt off. Winning, that is. He was so desperate (not to mention scared) after having lost all that money earlier on in the film that he would have done anything to get the money back, even sell his soul. He chose a high stake card game and lost; to a man called Bond. James Bond.

[Mister Asterix]

[mra]Let

[stromberg]

There's also the possibly that LC could have made a deal with every other winner. With an 'offer they can't refuse', a l

[dinovelvet]

Could anyone answer this question? In Casino Royale, are the poker players all working for Le Chiffre? just because I was watching it today and it came to my attention on how important Bond is, and I was wondering if Bond lost to one of the other players, lets just say Infante, would Le Chiffre come after him or are all the Casino Royale players (minus Bond) already working for Le. Chiffre?

I don't really understand how or why the other players would be working for Le Chiffre. This question would assume they all put in their own $15 million at the start, and no matter who wins, they have to give it all to Le Chiffre? So what's in it for them, to do that?