Casino Royale Review

Advantages: Tense, fast paced, engaging action
Disadvantages: Poker scenes may bore some

...Casino Royale marks Daniel Craig's first outing as 007, James Bond. In it he must stop Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorist organizations, from winning a high-stakes poker tournament at Casino Royale in Montenegro. I was one of those people who was originally skeptical about Craig's casting. I grew up with Pierce Brosnan as Bond and I didn't know if I could accept someone else in that role. Sufficed to say, I needn't have worried. Craig is a different kind of Bond, he's not as outwardly flashy as Brosnan and he's more quietly confident. But the style, the attitude and the finesse of his Bond is reminiscent of Sean Connery, you could say he is more of the thinking mans bond. As for the film, it's exciting, well acted, tense and has a great story too. Bond and Vespa have a great chemistry together, as do Bond with 'M...

Walter_Kovacs 14.12.2008 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of Casino Royale (DVD)

Online Poker

Advantages: Winning Lots of Money !!
Disadvantages: Losing Lots of Money !!

...I love online poker. Have been playing since I turned 18. Was playing before hand but not online. Online is very different to live poker because you cannot see the people you are playing. People think that this will decrease the chance of winning but technically it wont, because everyone is in the same boat. The main rules of 'Texas hold em' is to make the best possible hand out of the 2 hole cards you are dealt and the 5 community cards in the middle. Hear is a list of the possible hands:- Straight Flush (five cards of the same suit in sequence) Four Of A Kind (four cards of the same numerical value) Full House (three cards of one value and two of another) Flush (five cards of the same suit) Straight (five cards in sequence) Three Of A Kind (three cards of the same value) Two Pairs (2x two cards of the same value) One Pair...

Mace47 09.08.2007 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of Poker

Poker (Texas hold'em)

Advantages: Fun, mulitiplayer game, cheap to buy
Disadvantages: can lead to high risk games, but generally no disadvantages

...I don’t know about you but Poker just seems to have rocketed in popularity in the last year and months. I’m not sure if it is to do with the rise of online gaming or if poker has always been so popular, but it seems to everywhere at the moment. I guess this isn’t the 70’s, 80’s or 90’s but the naughty's and many things sort off taboo are now more widely acceptable. Yes in the back of your mind there is the stigma of betting addictions and all that but it is a fun game with a few variants on the way it is played and what it is called. Know you can buy chip sets in Tesco and Asda and online on sites such as Ebuyer and Ebay, either I haven’t noticed before or the game is on the rise. You can play for cash, which could be fun or dangerous depends on yourself, but always bet what you...

dingoo 23.11.2005 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of Poker

The Many Faces Of Poker.

Advantages: Easy to play- you only need a pack of cards; good fun; a bit different from usual.
Disadvantages: Can be serious & complicated; doubts over effect of gambling on society; doesn't really raise your blood pressure.

...fashionable in casinos etc., but being only 17 I have never frequented a casino and harbour no intentions of gambling seriously anyway. This is another one for serious pokerists and I don’t think I’ve ever played it. Having however checked out the rules at ‘http://www.pokerrulesonline.com/rules.htm ’ my advice is to leave this variation well alone! ~Conclusion~ Although poker has a reputation for being a very serious game played by solemn ant stupid alcoholics it can, in its most basic form, be a simple game reasonable enjoyable for just about everyone. There are concerns around about gambling and its harmful effect on society, but if this really bothers you then play with pennies or matchsticks! I usually play with bets from 10p-£1 in a darkened room with reflective surfaces removed and a few beers handy, but it...

timmyotoole 28.09.2001 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of Poker

The poker player James Bond

Advantages: Loads of action, outstanding special effects
Disadvantages: I missed Moneypenny and Q

...I?m a fan of James Bond films I have seen all of them. What I like most in these films are the gadgets. I like to see the beautiful cars that are extremely well equipped. My favourite James Bond was Pierce Brosnan but I like Daniel Craig as well. He is different character he uses more human power than gadgets. The story ------------ James Bond (Daniel Craig) has just received his 007 status. He kills two men in Prague then causes international incident in Madagascar. M (Judi Dench) is nerves when she realises what he did then he entered into M?s home and waited for her there. M instead of firing him decided to ask him to play a poker game in Montenegro. He has to take on Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen) the banker of the arm dealers. As James Bond has to play high stakes poker the Treasury?s beautiful accountant Vesper Lynd (Eva Green...

D_i_a_n_e 02.10.2009 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of Casino Royale (2006)

Casino Royale

Advantages: Action packed movie, Mindboggling story
Disadvantages: None

...a desperate way to quickly earn the money back before his financiers decide to kill him, LeChiffre, hosts a high stakes tournament. Being a great poker player, he aims to win the tournament easily. To prevent LeChiffre from regaining his money, the agency sends their best player, Bond, to the table and his Partnere the beautiful accountant Vesper Lynd (Eva Green). Her job it is to cover the high price of Bond's buy-in to the game. While playing the game, Bond discovers various truths about the terrorists. In and desparate effort, Bond makes a hasteful decision, and ends up losing all the money. In another desparate effort, he goes to LeChiffres room to kill him and finds someone else confronting him. Then begins the chase of money and terrorists. A friend of bond, adds up money to his account and by his tricks and attempts, bond ends up winning...

anurag440044 17.11.2008 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of Casino Royale (DVD)

Casino Royale with Cheese

Advantages: read opp
Disadvantages: read opp

...This review is on the twenty first James Bond film "Casino Royale", directed by Martin Campbell and starring Daniel Craig, Judi Dench and Eva Green. The film was released in 2006 and was based on the novel by Ian Fleming. Casino Royale had previously been produced twice before, once in 1954 as a television programme and again in 1967 as a comedy version. The initial idea was to have Casino Royale released much earlier, but due to copyright of the name, they had to wait some time before they could make this film. The 21st Bond film also introduced a new member of the bond family and became the sixth James Bond. I was quite spectacle about this film at first, largely because it introduced a new Bond. I had grown fond of Pierce Brosnan, and he had played Bond really well in his previous film, the best of which for me was Golden Eye. I was...

jaygami1986 14.02.2008 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful
Review of Casino Royale (2006)

Is POKER really a gentlemans game?

Advantages: Good when your WINNING
Disadvantages: Bad when your LOSING

...I have only just started playing poker on the internet and live games with my brothers at our local casino in Hastings. I would say that there is quite alot to take in when you are just a beginner. Anyway here is my review on Poker and the best places both online and offline. If you are ever in East Sussex pop in and have a wager. How to Play Texas Hold'em: Players receive two 'hole' cards that only they can see and use. Then, five 'community' cards are dealt that everyone can see and use. Players can make their five-card hand from both, one or none of their hole cards in combination with the community cards. The game is divided into four rounds of betting, and the betting moves clockwise around the table. Betting starts from the position next to the dealer button, which moves one place to the left after each hand. In online...

Sexy_Young_God 16.10.2005 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of Poker

The Poker Phenomena

Advantages: Win Money and have fun
Disadvantages: Lose Money but still have fun as long as its not too much

...entry fees are as low as 60c. This site however do not run free rolls as such, you have to earn player points to enter the free rolls so a deposit is required. The good thing is that most of the people that play her are not professional but more you average poker players so it is a good place to start I think. They also have a plug in radio so you can listen to some top tunes whilst playing and never leave the site. NICE In closing, you are best off shopping about to see weather you like the site, like the buy-ins, and the free rolls, CHECK OUT SOME OF ON LINE POKER MAGAZINES AS WELL. You can also look about to see if new sites are giving money to people just to sign up, it does happen, just recently I signed up for a poker site called Bigslick poker, part of a casino network, I was given £10.00 for the poker site and £5...

mat_yew 16.05.2006 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of Poker

Check, Raise, Call...But Never Fold on this Poker Site

Advantages: Play for fun and the occasional real life prize
Disadvantages: Very addictive!

...Zynga Poker After many months of badgering me to join Facebook, I decided to give it a go ? why not? Most people were on there these days, and sure enough, soon I was hooked. After a while, though, the novelty started to wear off?that is until I was sent an invitation via Facebook to go to Zynga Poker, an application run both through Facebook itself and also as a stand alone site. I hadn?t a clue how to play poker, although I liked card games, poker was a little advanced for me, though I was at a loose end and decided to try. Of course, I started loosing all my chips (luckily they are free game chips!) but soon I began to pick up the game (and it helped when I actually did the sensible thing and read the instructions!) and not long after that, I was hooked. ******** POKER ******** I wont give you a full in and out run down...

elfbwillow 04.10.2009 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful
Review of zynga.com (Poker)