5 More Poker Playin' Movie Stars: Part II - Whoopi, James Woods, and Friends Tackle Texas Hold 'em

For Part I, see http://ezinearticles.com/?id=78317

Part two gets here:

Lights! Camera! Action! Hold ‘em! Fold ‘em!

If the norm American is ga-ga astir the Texas Hold ‘em craze, how make you believe the film stars, who can afford to drop r-e-a-l-l-y large vaulting horses at a friendly Saturday nighttime poker game, experience about it?

One indicant of their involvement is a regular game in toney Bel-Air, California, called the “Billionaire Boys” which pulls the likes of Ben Affleck, Mark Mark Tobey Maguire, Leonardo Da Vinci di Caprio, and (boy?), Mimi Will Rogers where large vaulting horses alteration hands at every meeting.

Here are five more than poker playin’ stars:

* Tobey Maguire, “Spiderman,” like Ben Affleck, is also the existent deal. In October, 2004 Mark Tobey won his first major poker tournament at Phil Hellmuth’s Poker Invitational at the Hollywood Park Casino, a $2,000 buy-in event that netted him $95,480 for his first place finish. He climbed over 122 other players on his manner to the top. Hosts high bet games in his Hollywood Hills place where he have a room set aside just for poker and he recently bought a pad of paper in Vegas to be close to the poker action.

* Jesse James Woods. Forest is a bright guy, an Massachusetts Institute of Technology grad, who played Sharon Stone’s lover in the classic Vegas movie, “Casino.” Helium have been nominated for Oscars and Emmys, and have a Golden Earth awarding on his mantle. He and Vince Avant Garde Clog patron an online poker site, HollywoodPoker.com. Forest also have a gig on the GSN (Game Show Network) where the “James Forest Gang” takes on the “Unabombers” (Pro Phil Laak is “the Unabomber). Laak’s squeezing is actress Jennifer Tilly who was profiled in Part I of Poker Playin’ Movie Stars.

* Mimi Rogers. Nominated for an Oscar for a 1991 film, “The Rapture,” Mimi is one of Hollywood’s hardest working actresses. A former Playboy model, Mimi was the first married woman of Uncle Tom Cruise. When not working at her twenty-four hours job, she plays serious poker, journeying to Eire in the summertime of 2005 to open up the Gaming Baseball Club World Poker Championship. She picked up $5,700 in a northern Golden State tournament in 2004 and often looks on Assassin TV’s “Celebrity Poker Showdown.”

* Leonardo Da Vinci di Caprio. “I won my ticket on the Titanic in a lucky manus at poker,” states Leonardo Da Vinci as Jack Dawson, one of the doomed riders on the fated ship that sank in 1918. Like Affleck, Maguire, Damon and Prince Edward Norton, he entered the 2005 World Series of Poker. Digitalspy.com studies that he recently attended a poker-themed birthday party for Justin Timberlake.

* Academy Award winner (“Ghost”), Whoopi Goldberg, wishes to play poker, according to the Poker Gazette, “to improve her societal skills.” Whoopi, whose existent name is Caryn Johnson, hosts poker nighttimes in her Green Mountain State home, inviting up to 30 friends and neighbours at a time. She says, “I’m truly an anti-social person and Iodine decided the aged I was getting that I really needed to seek to develop better people skills.” Her political parties started nine or 10 old age ago and now include her pipe fitter and electrician.

Check out Part I for the first five stars, add these five, and you now have got 10 poker playin’ film stars to believe about. Next time you see one of their movies, image them hunched over their cards, and saying “All In.”

One piece of advice. Beware of histrions at your table. Because, after all, what is a bluff, but good acting?

© 2005 Potato James