Consequently, Le Chiffre has a penchant for poker, even though he has what at first appears to be an obvious tell - it is later implied that this is a trick to fool James Bond into becoming overconfident. A mathematical genius and chess prodigy, his abilities enable him to earn large sums of money in games of chance and probability. We can't let him win this game if he loses, he'll have nowhere to run.' ― M to James Bond īelieved by MI6 to have been born on Novemin Albania, Le Chiffre is banker to the world's terrorist organizations. Instead, someone lost over 100 million dollars betting the wrong way.which would explain how he could set up a high stakes poker game at Casino Royale in Montenegro: ten players, ten million dollar buy in, five million dollar rebuy, winner takes all, potentially a hundred and fifty million. With their prototype destroyed, the company would be near bankruptcy. The same thing happened this morning with SkyFleet stock, or was supposed to. When the stocks hit bottom on 9/12, somebody made a fortune. ' When they analysed the stock market after 9/11, the CIA noticed a massive shorting of airline stocks.
