Casino Royale

We all know that the new Bond show came out, and my opinion of it is that its pretty good. Even though i initially thought the 'new' Bond would be... bleh, turns out he's alright. Grows on you.

But after watching, it lead to discussions about poker. Specifically, How to play Poker.















In the movie, it just looks so sophisticated and attractive, with the exception of the bleeding eye.

So the other night, 4 of us played.















Was the first time for Chris and I. We were fumbling through the inital rounds, but eventually got the hang of it.

I must say though, that our version was way more intense than what Bond went through. Instead of playing for money, we played to not have to eat the leftovers which was a whole load of :

















Basically, we all started with -10, and had to come up from that. The winner of the round minuses off what his winnings were, while the losers gotta count their loses and convert them to satay sticks.

Know the fancy chips Bond uses, and how they toss them into the middle of the table?

Well, we had ours,














We played till 5.30am, and the last round was the most kan cheeong of all. This was the scenario, Chris down by bout 100+, Sam down by a few, Jo up by 300+ and i was down by 40. I folded with my lau-yah cards and watched the action.

Its darn funny to see how it all went on, with the "poker faces" and we all suddenly have PhD's in Psychology, where we analyze every blink.


The last bet was the Big Kahuna, of 300...! What would you do if you had these cards below...
Is the guy on the left bluffing or does he have something...






















...turns out he did, and thus changing Jo's +300 to a -144...














Since we are people of our words, we ate.

The breakdown was,

Me - 8 sticks

Jo - 16 sticks

Chris - 51sticks