The poker scene in “John Wick: Chapter 4” is a bit totally different, as a result of it is 5 Card Draw. As a substitute of every participant getting two playing cards initially and watching because the seller reveals 5 playing cards to match with (as Texas Maintain’em works), right here every participant will get simply 5 playing cards, the energy of which stands by itself. That makes it much more spectacular when Caine (Donnie Yen) finally ends up with a 4 of a form. John finally ends up with two aces and two eights, AKA a Lifeless Man’s Hand, and Mr. No person will get a royal flush.
Is that this kind of ridiculous than the “On line casino Royale” scene? It is exhausting to inform. The chances of Caine and Mr. No person getting their respective fingers on the identical time is astronomical, however this film deserves some credit score for not giving John a straight flush simply because he is cool. As a substitute, John will get the weakest hand of the 4, and in the end makes use of one in every of his playing cards to slice the seller’s neck.
Talking of the seller, we should always speak about Killa (Scott Atkins), the German Excessive Desk senior who offers the hand. He offers to himself as properly, and finally ends up giving himself a 5 of a form, although there are solely 4 fits in a deck. (Not since “Futurama” has anyone gotten a hand so bold.) It is this second that establishes the poker scene as being much less ridiculous than Bond’s, as a result of no less than right here we now have “the sport was rigged” as an evidence.
