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January 2008, Volume 4
Welcome to another edition of The Insider, HollywoodPoker's newsletter for the latest in celebrity, online poker news and promotions. Here are the headlines:
Hope you have a good read. We also welcome your feedback, so please send them to hollay@hollywoodpoker.com |
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Go All-In at HollywoodPoker's Mad Tilt |
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HollywoodPoker's Mad Tilt All-In is a brand new Sit & Go game where a typical session lasts less than 10 minutes. You start with 60 in chips and the blinds are 10/20! It's all about choosing the right moment and going with it.
The buy-in is only $2+0.20 (Winner Takes All) and $10+1 (Pays Top 2). For those who like to play multi-table tournaments, there is also a 5-table Sit & Go in this format where the top 3 gets paid.
For scheduled multi-table Mad Tilt tournaments, the starting stack is 100 chips with a buy-in of $3+0.30 where the top 10 gets paid; with one of the tournaments even having a $1,000 guaranteed prize pool.
Look out for the GT Mad Tilt Re-buy Qualifiers that gives away Grand Tournament tickets to the top two players worth $1,040 each.
A great chance to have some fun and get lucky! |
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Celebrity Bounty Series Update |
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 Once again, HollywoodPoker's celebrities and players came out in force at the celebrity bounty tournaments.
Player lojay1 won $250 for taking out Erik Palladino (ER), Seth Meyers (Saturday Night Live) and Josh Grisetti (The Sandpiper) during the January 22nd Canadian Poker Night. For the final bounty showdown, lojay1's pocket Cowboys beat Josh Grisetti's nine pair. Another player telica316 also took out celebrity players Shaun Toub (Iron Man), Kane Hodder (Hack!) and Stephen Rannazzisi (Nowhereland) for $250. In the final bounty showdown, telica316's better two pairs of tens and nines took out Stephen Rannazzisi's nines and sixes.
Tom McGowan (The War at Home), Kato Kaelin (Revamped), Tony Griffin (Entertainment Tonight), Willie Garson (Sex and the City), Shaun Toub (Iron Man), Kane Hodder (Hack!), Christopher Rich (Reba), Ken Howard (Rambo) and Dean Cain (Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman) were also seen warming up the tables.
 At the January 27th HollywoodPoker Celebrity Classic, player henderoosa80 received $250 for knocking out Tony Griffin, Kato Kaelin and Pamela Gidley (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation). With 4-K in the hole, henderoosa80 bets at the turn and Pamela Gidley went all-in with a Q-K as the board shows 7-3-5-K at the turn. henderoosa80 managed to river the 6 for a straight to beat her King pair (Q kicker).
 At the Michael Woods Celebrity Invitational on January 26th, quality49 received $250 for knocking out HP Model: Ashley Dorenzo, Bill Smitrovich (Iron Man), and Mimi Rogers (Austin Powers). Mimi Rogers went all-in at the flop with an 8 pair, losing to quality49's trips of fives at the showdown.
Among the other celebrities at play were Christopher Rich, Dean Cain, Jimmie Walker, Kirk Acevedo (The Black Donnellys), Ronny Cox (NowhereLand), Andrew Hill Newman (The Grand), Willie Garson (Sex and the City), Sean Kanan (Hack!), Erik Palladino (ER) and Tony Denison (The Closer).
With over $270,000 won so far, get in on the celebrity bounty action to win big dollar bounties by visiting our Celebrity Tournament Schedule. |
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HollywoodPoker celebrity players heats up Iron Man Super Bowl ad
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HollywoodPoker's celebrity players Jon Favreau and Shaun Toub are part of Paramount Pictures and Marvel Entertainment's Iron Man, which ran a TV commercial during the Super Bowl in Arizona on Sunday.
 Helmed by Swingers, Elf and Zathura director Favreau, the big screen adaptation of the Marvel comic-book superhero is set to open in U.S. theaters on May 2nd with Robert Downey Jr playing the title character in the movie.
Toub who can be seen in the Golden Globe Award nominated and best-selling novel by Afghan American writer Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner, starts opposite Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeff Bridges and Terrence Howard in Iron Man. He plays the role of Yin Sen, the famed physicist who sets off Iron Man on his journey.
The film revolves around the story of Tony Stark, a billionaire industrialist and inventor who is kidnapped and forced to build a devastating weapon. Instead, using his intelligence and ingenuity, the driven inventor builds a high-tech suit of armor and escapes captivity.
 After uncovering a nefarious plot with global implications, he dons his powerful armor by night and vows to protect the world as Iron Man. But Tony is haunted by his dark side and begins to crack under the strain of his fractured lifestyle, and must ultimately confront the one enemy he can never beat - himself.
While not at the movies, Jon Favreau and Shaun Toub can be seen heating up the tables at HollywoodPoker. |
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HollywoodPoker celebrities help raise $40,000 for Poker Celebrity Bowl event |
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HollywoodPoker celebrity players Willie Garson (Sex and the City), Tony Denison (The Closer) and Erik Palladino (ER) joined Major League Baseball's Royce Clayton to hit a home run with the inaugural Poker Celebrity Bowl.
The Poker Celebrity Bowl (PCB) is a Texas No-Limit Hold'em event that kicked off on Super Bowl weekend. Stars from sports and Hollywood came out in full force to support Clayton. Over $40,000 was raised for the Royce Clayton Family Foundation which is committed to improving lives and giving back to the community. The foundation promotes education, help homeless children, provide aid for battered women, develop athletic opportunities for minority youth, and raise awareness for sickle-cell anemia.
 The poker event included more than 20 of Clayton's fellow celebrity athletes, actors and professional poker pros. They included MLB pitcher Kyle Lohse, Jose Canseco, NFL's Rolland Roland Williams, Jamir Miller, MarTay Jenkins, NBA Hall of Famer Bob Lanier, LPGA Laura London, music producer Bruce Walker, Fox Sports Super Bowl host Fred King and Heartland Poker Tour host Chris Hanson.
Willie Garson, Tony Denison and Erik Palladino can be found together with many other celebrities in the Famous Faces section of HollywoodPoker's online magazine The Green Room. |
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HollywoodPoker celebrity player and 2001 Playmate of the Year hosts first annual Super Bowl viewing party at Hugh Hefner's house
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 HollywoodPoker celebrity player and 2001 Playmate Of The Year Brande Roderick (Starsky & Hutch) held her first annual Playboy Mansion Super Bowl Benefit Party which attracted some 700 guests, models, athletes, celebrities, dancers and performers.
Donning a skimpy football jersey, Roderick said that this was the first event put on by her new company, Financially Hung Events, and that tickets went for $2,500 each. Many of the revelers were models who had flown in from around the country, most dressed in sheer lingerie.
"I hand-picked every single one of them," says Roderick, describing the girls she looks for as "first of all beautiful, and that means inside and out. You have to have a great personality, be personable and a sweet nice person." "If you're like that on the inside, you are going to show that on the outside."
Roderick, who is based in San Diego, is planning three other parties this year; and says the Super Bowl party will be an annual event. There will be an event this summer and one at the Kentucky Derby.
Brande Roderick is the first Baywatch (1989) cast member that went on to become a Playmate of the Year, with the others being Pamela Anderson, Erika Eleniak and Marliece Andrada. She can be found at our Famous Faces section.
If you think Brande Roderick is super hot, check our list of girls competing for the 2009 HollywoodPoker Girls Calendar. Every month from January to May, we narrow down our selection to the 50 sexiest poker hostesses on the planet. You get the chance to help us decide which 12 will make it on the cover of the 2009 HollywoodPoker Girls Calendar by voting for them at www.hollywoodpokergirls.com | | | |
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