Bond loses his stake as Le Chiffre has been tipped off about his own tell. Obanno, furious that his money is missing, ambushes Le Chiffre but allows him to continue playing to win back the money, though Bond kills both Obanno and his bodyguard.
They meet their contact René Mathis in Montenegro. Bond is paired with Vesper Lynd, a British Treasury agent protecting the $10 million buy-in. MI6 enters Bond in the tournament, believing a defeat will force Le Chiffre to seek asylum with the British government in exchange for information on his clients. To recoup his clients’ money, Le Chiffre organizes a Texas hold ’em tournament at the Casino Royale in Montenegro. Surmising that somebody talked, he tortures Solange to death. Bond thwarts the destruction of Skyfleet’s prototype airliner, costing Le Chiffre his hundred-million dollar investment. After winning his Aston Martin DB5 in a poker game and seducing Dimitrios’ wife Solange, Bond pursues Dimitrios to Miami and kills him, then chases down the new attacker Dimitrios has hired.
Using information captured from Mollaka, Bond is led to corrupt Greek official Alex Dimitrios in the Bahamas, who had hired Mollaka at Le Chiffre’s request.
MI6 chief M admonishes Bond for causing an international incident and ignoring her orders to capture Mollaka alive. In Madagascar, Bond blows up an embassy in the course of killing bomb-maker Mollaka.
