After a night with Madeleine, Bond leaves the next morning and goes to the cemetery where Vesper is buried.
Bond journeys to Sanchez's home in the Republic of Isthmus and is taken-on to Sanchez's staff, where he manages to raise Sanchez's suspicions against a number of his employees.
Needing to recoup his clients' money, Le Chiffre has set up a high-stakes poker tournament at the Casino Royale in Montenegro.