However, if a player can position the cards himself, a large advantage can be gained. This visual flaw could theoretically be tracked during play, but it wouldn't really benefit anyone. The cards have been punched out of a larger sheet, and this process can sometimes result in a pattern that varies the slightest bit in the corners, especially if they are rounded. Grab a deck of cards and examine the pattern on the back of one of them. The casino isn't gonna be like 'aw shucks he got us on that one, now we owe this schmuck with the silly vest half a million and have literally no recourse whatsoever to obtain it from the person who promised it.'īasically, when cards are cut, tiny imperfections can arise. I'm pretty sure they'd hold Bond to that tip. He slid one to the dealer and it was witnessed by the tourney organizers, the casino and the dude from the Swiss bank. It's a piece of plastic that represents a dollar amount. You couldn't take a chip to McDonald's and use it as legal tender. Everyone's like 'zomg chips don't actually have worth outside of the tournament so he actually gave the dealer nothing!' Well technically they don't really have worth inside the tournament either, they're just a representation of your place in the game.

You know how you know that's probably the case? Because the other explanation makes zero fucking sense haha. I always just assumed the 500k was deducted from his winnings. The chip is just representative of Bond's intent to tip. That part isn't hard to understand - although you wouldn't know it by the responses in this thread lol - but I don't think that was the point of the chip slide.

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