One of Europe’s top poker players has praised new James Bond film Casino Royale’s poker scenes, describing the movie as “miles better” than other poker-based efforts.

Victoria Coren, who has just been nominated for two European Poker Tour awards, describes the film in the Guardian newspaper as ” better than Rounders, miles better than Maverick,” before drawing the line at Steve McQueen’s Cincinnati Kid.

However, unless Bond is attempting a particularly unwise bluff, Coren suggests that Daniel Craig’s play is not up to scratch.

“He gets lucky in a couple of situations where the hands are so big they play themselves,” she comments.

Casino Royale has been breaking box-office records around the globe since it was released on Friday. The centrepiece of the film, originally a game of baccarat in the Ian Fleming novel on which the movie was based, has been changed to a game of Texas Hold’Em poker in an effort to modernise the story.

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