Daniel Craig continued to disappoint loyal 007 fans when the new Bond revealed that he was a dud at the poker table. While filming a pivotal gambling scene of “Casino Royale" Craig's first foray in the shoes of Bond, producers hit a wall when they discovered that their leading man was most unfamiliar with the game at hand, poker.

To give Craig enough poker know-how to film the poker scene, producers called on British poker player John Duthie to come down to the Berlin set and teach the cast a little something about the game. Having won close to $3 million at poker, Duthie was deemed a worthy teacher for the new Bond. Craig's poker fiasco merely managed to further taint Craig's reputation among die-hard Bond fans, after the British actor already admitted that he hated guns, didn't favor Martinis, and did not know how to drive Bond's trademark manual Aston Martin.

Source:  Poker777 Staff

Sunday, 09 April 2006