World Strip Poker Champion Challenges New James Bond

Paddy Power World Strip Poker Champion puts his title on the line for a showdown with James Bond star Daniel Craig. World Strip Poker champion John Young has thrown a challenge to new James Bond star Daniel Craig.

Young has issued the challenge, and he says Craig can choose the time and place of the showdown. "There is no higher stakes in poker than the shirt of a man's back." The young journalist said.

"Bond rates himself as a bit of a shark at the poker table but I want to prove it's all posturing and that underneath that glacially cool exterior lies a big scared-y cat who'll crap himself at the first sight of a real poker player. It's just a shame 007 isn't a woman."

In the newest 007 offering, Casino Royale, bond plays a high-stakes game of poker in Monte Carlo against the villain Le Chiffre. The movie is set to premiere at Odeon Leicester Square in London on November 14th.

The world's very first strip poker champion is confident he could take on any number of Bonds.

"I'm so confident I can outplay these shadowy super-spies I'll let Connery, Moore, Dalton, Brosnan and Lazenby into the game too. I mean, c'mon, with such a bunch of lady-killers sat around one table gambling for such impressively high stakes the ladies are gonna be shaken AND stirred. Especially the Bond girls the boys will no doubt bring along for the post-game party."

"Craig can get Miss Moneypenny to give me a call on the secure phone to arrange a time and place for the game. I hope it's in a giant secret volcano or a shimmering underwater lair but if he wants to come round to my house that'll be fine too as long as the girlfriend doesn't mind."

"I've even started working on my killer lines: 'Do you expect me to raise? No, Mr Bond I expect you to fold!', and 'Will the Diamonds be Forever? I don't think so Mr.Bond!'. Should they fail to sufficiently unsettle him I'll get my third nipple out. It's much scarier than Scaramanga's -- I'm getting a laser fitted next Wednesday y'know."