{"id":5407,"date":"2023-07-13T10:14:03","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T10:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top10pokersites.net\/news\/?p=5407"},"modified":"2023-07-13T10:14:03","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T10:14:03","slug":"james-bond-star-daniel-craig-sucked-playing-poker-in-casino-royale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top10pokersites.net\/news\/james-bond-star-daniel-craig-sucked-playing-poker-in-casino-royale","title":{"rendered":"James Bond Star Daniel Craig Sucked Playing Poker In Casino Royale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top10pokersites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/james-bond-playing-poker.jpg\" width=\"300\" alt=\"James Bond (Daniel Craig) in Casino Royale playing poker against Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen)\" title=\"James Bond Star Daniel Craig Sucked Playing Poker In Casino Royale\" class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><strong>Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mads Mikkelsen made the revelation in an interview with British men\u2019s magazine GQ<\/li>\n<li>The Danish actor said Craig actually \u201csucked at poker\u201d and had no idea about the game<\/li>\n<li>In Casino Royale, Craig\u2019s character Bond defeated Mikkelsen\u2019s character Le Chiffre in a high-stakes poker game<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Daniel Craig<\/strong> first appeared as <em>James Bond<\/em> in the 2006 spy film Casino Royale. <\/p>\n<p>His character as 007 agent Bond was tasked to bankrupt an Albanian private banker and terrorist financier named <em>Le Chiffre<\/em>, who was the primary antagonist in the film, portrayed by Danish actor <strong>Mads Mikkelsen<\/strong>. The movie hits its climax in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.top10pokersites.net\/blog\/why-high-roller-poker-events-continue-to-cause-a-storm\">high-stakes poker tournament<\/a> at Casino Royale in Montenegro where Bond came face to face with Le Chiffre and ended up winning the game.  <\/p>\n<p>In Casino Royale, <strong>Bond was considered MI6\u2019s best poker player<\/strong>, but is the actor who portrayed him really good at poker? Well, Mikkelsen just revealed a fresh trivia: Craig actually sucked at the game. <\/p>\n<h2 id=\"mads-mikkelsen-reveals-craig-was-not-very-good-playing-poker\">Mads Mikkelsen Reveals Craig Was Not Very Good Playing Poker<\/h2>\n<p>Mikkelsen was recently featured in a video by <strong>British men\u2019s magazine GQ<\/strong> where he breaks down his most iconic characters, and topping the list was his role as the antagonist Le Chiffre in Casino Royale. The Danish actor talked about one of the most iconic scenes in the movie \u2013 a $10 million buy-in poker tournament involving him and Craig who played Bond. <\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative;height:0;padding-bottom:56.25%\">\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cIc00clhJBo?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0?ecver=2\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"position:absolute;width:100%;height:100%;left:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mikkelsen is poker savvy in real life, which means he really knows how to play the game. He began playing the game as a kid, so he isn\u2019t a stranger to it. But Craig is the direct opposite. The Danish actor funnily shared that his co-star doesn\u2019t know how to play poker, and it\u2019s the \u201c<em>worst thing ever<\/em>\u201d that his character demanded him to beat Le Chiffre and take all his money. According to Mikkelsen, Craig \u201c<em>had no clue<\/em>\u201d how to do it, especially as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.top10pokersites.net\/blog\/top-10-poker-hands\">poker hands<\/a> involved were insane.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative;height:0;padding-bottom:56.25%\">\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yeJD_DvvWIo?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0?ecver=2\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"position:absolute;width:100%;height:100%;left:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"daniel-craig-wont-mind-the-criticism\">Daniel Craig Won\u2019t Mind The Criticism  <\/h2>\n<p>The James Bond fictional character has generally been portrayed to be great at the poker table in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.top10pokersites.net\/blog\/how-do-hollywood-movies-impact-the-image-of-poker-in-real-life\">most movies that involve a casino scene which has always given the game a sense of allure for newbies<\/a>. While Craig is painted as being a poor poker player in real life, he ended up doing a pretty good job as James Bond in Casino Royale.<\/p>\n<p>Casino Royale was directed by Martin Campbell and also starred Judi Dench, Caterina Murino, Jeffrey Wright, and Eva Green.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Mads Mikkelsen made the revelation in an interview with British men\u2019s magazine GQ The Danish actor said Craig actually \u201csucked at poker\u201d and had no idea about the game In Casino Royale, Craig\u2019s character Bond defeated Mikkelsen\u2019s character Le Chiffre in a high-stakes poker game Daniel Craig first appeared as James Bond in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - 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