The players
Name: James Bond
The lowdown:
The world’s most famous movie spy travels to Nassau in the Bahamas on
the trail of "banker-to-the-international-terror-community" Le Chiffre
(or that’s how he puts it on his letterhead). There, Bond wins a
shedload of cash off Le Chiffre associate Alex Dimitrios in a sick ring
game at the Ocean Club. Later in the film, Bond plays a very long rebuy
tournament at Montenegro’s Casino Royale, involving Le Chiffre himself.
In the various tournament breaks, Bond kills an African guerrilla
leader in a bloody stairwell fight, has a shower with his clothes on
and is poisoned and has to make himself throw up before restarting his
heart with a defibrillator while taking instructions over the phone. As
if poker wasn't stressful enough...
A poisoned Bond: "You will find us allll doing the Lambeth walk... Oi!"
Skills:
Obviously an advanced player and a risk taker. “I hear you’re the best
player in the service,” says M. We’re not so sure. He just seems to be
a luckbox. Maybe she meant the postal service, Bond’s Saturday job.
Further proof of Bond possibly not being that good is the fact he keeps
trying to bet drinks mats instead of chips:
And at one point, Bond claims to have deliberately lost a hand to discover Le Chiffre’s tell. Yeah, like, whatever.
Hair: Bond-like.
Tells:
None that we know of. Seems about as bothered playing a $10m tourney
with an optional $5m rebuy as he would be about killing time on a
0.01/0.02c Paradise Poker play money table. He even canes the old vodka
martinis; even Scotty Nguyen would blanche at how much he puts them
away. Still, it’s the British and American taxpayers’ money, so what
does he care?
Prone to tilt? Big time. Grabs a steak knife and goes to kill Le Chiffre mid-tourney. Luckily, Felix Leiter stops him.
Name: Mr Fukutu
Lowdown:
Black-clad Chinese man at the big tourney. Interestingly, two comments
on the actor’s imdb.com entry say that he’s a 'super nice guy' who
worked in IT in London for many years! And made a naturist film! How he
suddenly broke into a Bond film remains a mystery but he looks pretty
cool. 
Skills: Ponytail. Being Chinese.
Hair: Luxuriant and white, it’s worth renting the film just to be in its presence for a while.
Tells/prone to tilt: None that we know of.
Name: Infante
The lowdown:
Huge bloke at the Casino Royale game. Decked out in unfortunate jacket
that looks like the bed cover from a Premier Lodge on the M1.
Skills: Heaviness. Communicating with his fingers.
Hair: Receded so far that all that’s left at the front is a tiny little dumpling on top. Aw, sweet.
Tells/prone to tilt: A cool customer. Accepts his fate with good grace.
Name: Le Chiffre.
The lowdown:
The main villain risks it all in a very high-stakes poker game to win
back the clients’ money he’s lost. Also appears to be an associate of
two-time WSOP main event winner Johnny Chan, as revealed to the eagle
eyed on the film's 30-minute mark:
Skills:
Mathematics, games of logic, chip tricks, banking, sarcasm, asthma.
Also not averse to a slow roll, as seen in the hand where he has fish
hooks. You could repeal the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act
in the time he takes to show them:
Tells:
He covers his eye to conceal a twitch when he’s bluffing. Bond
discovers this, so Le Chiffre uses it as a reverse tell to royally
stuff JB later on. ‘You must have thought I was bluffing, Mr Bond,’ he
says. Bond misses an opportunity to do that ‘Your mother washes windows
in McDonald’s’ thing.
Hair: Nasty, oily, threatening fringe.
Prone to tilt?
Only once, when everyone at the table orders cocktails. “Can we play
poker now?” he steams, before a hand has even been dealt. Easy tiger,
these people have stumped up $10m to be here. Don’t razz their buzz.
Name: Felix Leiter
The lowdown:
He’s the ‘brother from Langley’, a CIA man who’s come to play against
Le Chiffre on behalf of the agency. He and Bond agree to go halves on
Bond’s last buy-in.
Skills: Great flair at throwing out his chips. Comforting voice.
Hair: Receding but neatly cut, nice condition.
Tells: Mumbles to self when he's behind in the hand. "Someone knows something I don't."
Prone to tilt?
Doesn’t seem so, although he does seem anxious that the waiter gets his
cocktail right: “My friend, hold the fruit,” he requests.
Name: Alex Dimitrios
The lowdown:
Perma-angry, curly-haired associate of Le Chiffre. Loses a bundle of
money to Bond in first hand of cash game at the Ocean Club.
Unsurprisingly, he’s no better at holding on to his sexy wifie than he
is to his chips – he loses a massive hand to Bond, who then goes and
shags her, which is a bit like burgling a man’s house then pissing
through the letterbox. Obviously a wild player and a showoff, Dimitrios
tries to drive a bulldozer through the concept of table stakes by
getting out his cheque book, and then, when it’s refused, chucking his
Aston Martin’s keys into the pot like some 1970s suburban swinger. 
Embarrassingly, he appears to have just glued a Monopoly car to a key ring.
Meets his end when he loses a knife fight with Bond inside the Body Worlds Exhibition in Miami. He didn’t stand a chance – Bond was in a rage, though mainly because he paid $30 to get in.
Skills:
None that we know of. You can’t hold it against him that his set of
kings loses to Bond’s higher set. He has managed to bag a gorgeous
wife, Solange, however. ‘If that was for dinner, you’re two hours
late,’ he snarls when she comes to kiss him. Yeah, she was out on her
horsey, ogling J-Bo in his Speedos and trying to get away from you and
all your anger and hair.
Hair: Curly.
Tells:
Very hard to read as he looks angry when he (thinks he has) the best
hand, and when he doesn’t. Probably not an experienced player, however,
as he says: ‘I’m in’ at the start of a hand, even though he’s not been
sitting out. Er yeah, okay.
Prone to tilt?
‘He isn’t the type to take bad news well,’ reveals the Ocean Club
receptionist, which gives Bond some useful heads up. He also gets a bit
arsey when the dealer asks for his blind and tells him it’s his turn.
Name: Valenka
The lowdown: Le Chiffre’s girlfriend/wife.
Skills: Poisoning – she’s the one who nearly kills Bond with a dosed cocktail. Standing on balconies. Changing outfits.
Why is she in this section then, does she play any poker? No. But have you looked at the pictures?!
BONUS MATERIAL: RAILDOG EXCLUSIVELY REVEALS EARLY DRAFT OF THE BIG POKER SCENE.
INT. CASINO ROYALE CARD ROOM. NIGHT.
SIX PLAYERS ARE SEATED FOR A $10m REBUY TOURNMENT. BOND ARRIVES A BIT LATE AND SITS DOWN.
BOND: All right, everyone? I’m 007.
LE CHIFFRE (sneering): So you have a licence to kill? Big deal.
BOND: No, that’s my VPIP. I’m as tight as a Littlewoods Poker freeroller in the WSOP main event.
(EVERYONE LAUGHS. EXCEPT LE CHIFFRE)
LE CHIFFRE: How dare you. I qualified for this game on Littlewoods Poker.
(EVERYONE LAUGHS. EXCEPT LE CHIFFRE)
I did! Stop
laughing! I order it! It was a one-dollar satellite, I had to beat nine
hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety nine players!
Do you know how many goddamn coin flops that is?!? I am Le Chiffre,
stop laughing or I will happy slap every one of you, except the black
guy, obviously, he’s huge.
(EVERYONE STOPS LAUGHING)
BOND: Do you mind me asking what your name means?
LE CHIFFRE: In French, chiffre means ‘figure’ or ‘the cipher’.
(BOND TAKES A SIP OF HIS VODKA MARTINI)
BOND: Actually I meant the ‘le’ bit.
(EVERYONE LAUGHS. EXCEPT LE CHIFFRE)
TOURNAMENT DIRECTOR:
Ladies and gentlemen, we are ready to begin. Let me start by saying
that I can guarantee the integrity of this game. I was head of security
at Absolute Poker.
(EVERYONE LAUGHS. EXCEPT LE CHIFFRE. AND BOND SWALLOWS THE OLIVE IN HIS VODKA MARTINI)
Only kidding! Actually it was Ultimate Bet!
(ONE BY ONE THE
PLAYERS STEP UP TO A COMPUTER AND MAKE A TRANSFER OF DEPOSITS. THERE’S
A LENGTHY DELAY WHILE THE CHINESE BLOKE HAS TO E-MAIL PAYPAL,
AUTHORISING THEM TO RAISE HIS DAILY LIMIT FROM $50 TO $4m. THE GAME IS
FINALLY ABOUT TO BEGIN WHEN EVERYONE REALISES THEY’VE QUALIFIED FOR A
MILLION CASINO ROYALE FREQUENT PLAYER POINTS AND BUGGER OFF TO CLAIM
THEIR PORSCHES. ONLY LE CHIFFRE AND BOND ARE LEFT, AND THEY DO A CHOP
FOR THE WHOLE LOT).