Over 150 players will take part in the tournament, which takes place at Ritual on Cahuenga Blvd., with the eventual winner receiving a seat into the Aug. 22 Aces Full three table invitational satellite with over $15,000 in cash and prizes including a seat into the 2009 WPT Legends of Poker Main Event.
Among the celebrities expected to attend are Tia Carrere, Kelly Hu, Daisy Fuentes, Melinda Clark, Jamie Gold, Kristie Swanson, Roger Cross, Justin Hartley and many more.
...Waterloo, Canada, is claiming more and more poker success these days, as the city is, apparently, a breeding ground for online poker phenoms. The latest Waterloo resident to make a splash (no pun intended) is Mike "SirWatts" Watson. Watson had an incredible run online in 2007, and he......
Lee finished 13th in the 2005 WSOP, just missing the final table in the event eventually won by Australian Joe Hachem. He did beat out a field of 5606 other players, however, and then arguably leveraged that finish better than anybody else, including Hachem.
Within two months of his finish in the WSOP Lee found himself a job as a newspaper columnist with the Boston Herald. It is a job that he says literally fell into his...
But if knocking Ben Affleck out is what it takes to raise awareness about cerebral palsy, then so be it. Right on the river, baby. He totally deserves it for that Pearl Harbor flick. The inaugural All In for CP celebrity charity poker tournament featuring Ben and Casey Affleck runs Sunday Aug. 3 at 12 p.m. The $500 w/rebuys No-Limit event benefits the One Step Closer Foundation.
CEO and founder of the One Step Closer Foundation, Jacob Zalewski himself has CP. He...