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Devils Advocate: Am I completely mis-remembering Casino Royale here, or are both of the examples from that off?
1. "To their credit, though, Bond wins the tournament with an inside straight." The way I remember it, the climactic hand had four people still in, with a flush, a full house, a higher full house, and four of a kind(!), making this a particularly egregious example (not to mention extending the "whoever shows their cards last wins" principle to four people, each in turn having a higher hand than the previous player), not an aversion.
2. "Le Chiffre, the villain, has a tell." It seemed at one point Le Chiffre had a tell, but IIRC, he was deliberately faking a tell, and reversed it on the really big pot, so that Bond thought he was bluffing when he wasn't. Bond lost all his chips and had to borrow more money to buy his way back in.
Or I could be totally mis-remembering the film. Wouldn't be the first time.
Dr Dedman: He got an inside straight-flush. Note that hold-em is much more likely to see 2 (and very rarely 3) very good hands, because of the "community cards". Having a full house lose to a better one is not that infrequent (losing to 4 of a kind isn't unheard of either). But it is rare, most hands are won with a pair. So the event isn't quite as rare as you'd think, but still WAY too common in media.
Ronfar: It's not completely ridiculous for poker games to end in two high hands, because that's when you have two players who are both confident enough to decide to risk all their remaining chips.
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