[Jonah 99]

Thought we should have a thread for the new movie.

Saw it tonight, and give it thumbs up.

Was trying to figure out the 10 million starting chip break down:

I believe the pink chips were $25,000
black $100,000
red plaques $500,000
blue plaques $1,000,0000

not sure how many of each was the starting stacks.

[Devilboy]

What were the blinds? 25k/50k? That would make the stacks 200 BBs which is probably about correct for a high-stakes NL game.

I'm going to take a stab at the starting stacks from the screenshots posted in another thread:

20 x $25k
45 x $100k
6 x $500k
2 x $1m

[Jonah 99]

I believe they did start the blinds at 25K/50K
and escalated up to 100K/200K at one point

If I remember correctly that was right after they colored up the pinks,
(wish I had a screen shot of the table at that stage)
which would make sense.

your break down looks right, now I need to get some plaques so I can host a 10 million dollar buy in - freeze out match.

[jetra2]

I coulda swore they started the blinds at 5k/10k...but maybe it was 50k/100k.

How about those hands though....quite dramatic! Althought I had figured out what the main players (Bond and Le Chiffre) had pretty quick....those were some BIG hands.

What kinda idiot bets everything he's got plus a 1964 Aston Martin on 3 kings with the ace and that kind of action? (Early on...in the bahamas).

I absolutely HATED how they were pushing all in like that. It disgusted me to see that kinda mess of chips on the table! Noobs!

Jason

[Jonah 99]

Very sloppy all in moves, I also didn't like how the dealer in the main game was replacing the boards cards with the players cards, he should not have touched the players cards and just pulled down the card(s) the player wasn't using on the board. My cousin said they did that so people who don't play poker could figure out the players hands.

Over all I thought it was better based in reality than some of the other recent Bond movies, the action was extreme but physically possible.

If the blinds started that low did they have 5K chips? I don't recall seeing them.

Another funny thing, I found myself putting the players on their hands, kind of weird since it was all staged.
It's funny how every game has an @$$ that feels they need to slow roll quads. I think the best way to reveal quads is the way Chris Bigler did in the PPT Commerce Final Table(Alan Krell went all-in and Bigler yells, "ICALL-QUADS" in all of a nano-second, I consider anything longer a slow roll now)

[jldecarlo]

Liked the movie.

I believe the blinds did start at 5K/10K.

We had a woman faint into the aisle during the show during the torture scene, which held up the movie for about ten minutes. Fortunately, it looked like she was fine.

IMO the best Bond in years.

L

[tomb1]

Originally Posted by jldecarlo

We had a woman faint into the aisle during the show during the torture scene, which held up the movie for about ten minutes. Fortunately, it looked like she was fine.

She just got so excited because now she knows what to do to her good-for-nothing husband's chair when she gets home....

[Jonah 99]

Ok I found one of the stills of the table at the main game, they had the sky blue with black and white edge spots, those must be 5K chips.

Now we just need to recalculate the starting chip stacks to include those.

working with Devilboy's original estimation:
20 x $5k
20 x $25k
44 x $100k
6 x $500k
2 x $1m

If anybody knows of a still shot from the start of main table please post a link.

[Spaceman Spiff]

I'm pretty sure they started a 5k and 10k as well. Before the final scene I'm pretty sure they also announced that the big blind was 1 million. All in all I thought it was pretty well done. I did whisper to my wife during the sloppy all-ins, "Stop splashing the pot!" But other than that I can live with some of the other things they did to make it more visible or more easily accessible for non-poker players.

All I know is when I first heard Hold Em was going to be a part of the movie I was disgusted. I figured it would be sloppily done and just crap to cash in on poker popularity. After seeing it I don't know how they could have done it much better. I thought the poker scenes were great, beautifully filmed, and all in all fit in perfectly to the rest of the movie.

[PinataUT]

I saw the movie with the Mrs and enjoyed it.

Any ID on the chips?

I leaned over and whispered, "Don't splash the pot!" And when they intermingled the hands, "Uh, which one is my hand again?" Nits but we could have had a much worse poker scene.

I think they could have made the short stack all-in guys a little more resigned about their good but pretty obviously beat hands. Finishing up with A8 over A6 would have been good, too.