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Gambling factored into the plot of Casino Royale. He hasn't done in outside of that one scene.

The big martini moment has been the aforementioned quote where he doesn't give a damn whether it's shaken or stirred.

And sexuality is treated more as a tool that he uses. He cuckolds the bad guy to show that he's the alpha male -- his own admission to Vesper. He uses sex as a means of gaining information. He lures a woman into a hotel room and then abandons her there to carry out a mission. It's an alibi. Hell, Bond might as well be a closet homosexual who uses women as his mask. It wouldn't be any less of a departure.

It's deliberately subverted. Except with gambling. That they simply don't give a shit about. It was one scene that was vital to one plot and then never brought up again. It's no longer a part of who he is.