Casinos can be magnetic. The noise, the lights, the rush of playing for high stakes all go into creating a powerful, dreamy atmosphere. You see it over and over in movies: Hollywood produces hundreds of movies every year, many of them featuring casinos.

The sets go from bustling to deserted as the actors walk in, but the scenes are all familiar; for a while, you forget you’re watching a movie. You find yourself in there with them, sweating over chips and a possible win.

Casino Royale and learning how to play

The first thing audiences learned when Daniel Craig took a seat at a high-stakes poker table in Casino Royale wasn’t the importance of chomping on a toothpick during a hand – it was that Daniel Craig could really play poker. Every moment in those scenes had a sharp focus: the lights

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