We’ve also offered some suggestions for “house rules” pertaining to game play.

“Steve sure has gotten anal about the dress code since he re-paneled his rec room!” The more casual style of Bond’s game at the One and Only Ocean Club is more our pace. So our idea of a James Bond poker night does NOT include insisting everyone show up in black tie. We tend to be realists around these parts. So in this article we’re going to focus on organizing your own James Bond poker night.Ī few quick clarifications before we get started. Suffice it to say that outside the casinos of Europe, poker (specifically the popular Texas Hold ‘Em variant) is probably the better known game. This isn’t really the space to go into the pros and cons of each game. That changed with Casino Royale and it’s high-stakes poker game in Montenegro. Let me know if I can be of any more help, just as an aside a mint $25 Circus chip is worth around $10k to collectors these days.Updated May 17th, 2021 – For most of his literary and film existence, James Bond’s card game of choice has been chemin de fer or baccarat. As to the manufacturer, it could be any of the well known American ones poss Paulson. I have originals in mint condition but for display purposes I made up some copies as seen below. In mint condition expect to pay around $50 for the $1 and $200 for the $5. Today these chips are still available on chip collecting sites and EBay, be careful of the condition on EBay, they vary considerably. The chips seen at the table are Circus's first issue rack in $1 & $5 denominations.

Circus had only been open about a year when filming took place. Next we have Tiffany at the blackjack table in Circus Circus, here we have more luck as the scenes were actually filmed here. The plaques on the other hand are just pure movie props, no casino would ever use plain plaques like that, especially in such high denominations. We never actually see an identifiable shot of the chips here. Now these scenes are supposedly set in the Tropicana, but in actuality the craps table scenes were filmed in the Riviera. OK, chronologically, the first chips & plaques we see are at the craps table with Bond and Plenty.

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