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July 06, 2005
stars in my eyes....
I've now been in Las Vegas for 24 hours and have had more action than I can remember -- and I haven't gambled a single dollar yet!
Last night I was fortunate to be included in an invitation-only celebrity/poker pro party thrown by Full Tilt Poker and Bluff Magazine (I ranked an invite because I helped connect Rhythm & Hues and Fult Tilt to create the graphics for the poker site -- thanks Stacey Burstin!)...
The party took over the dance club at the new Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas. This is the most expensive hotel ever built in Las Vegas, and the dance club has the class to match. Poker tables, with dealers, were set up in the middle of the party scene so people could sit down and play small free one-table poker tournaments with other guests -- guests which included many famous poker players and hollywood celebrities. In addition to 15 or 20 famous Poker players, Penn (from Penn and Teller), David Brenner, Jennifer Tilly, Rob Livingston (Office Space and Sex and The City (Berger)), Andrea Parker (The Pretender), and other Hollywood actors and producers were there. Whoever won a tournament could donate $1000 to the charity of their choice ( the boys and girls club of Las Vegas being the default).
I played two tournaments and won one. In the second tourney I sat next to Rob Livingston and chatted with him for a while. A very nice guy -- and I told him he should be very proud of the work he did as the main character in "Office Space" (one of my favorite movies). I'm sure he really didn't care what I thought, but he was gracious and nice anyway. A good guy. Andrea Parker was also very nice. It was a thrill to meet them both, and a bigger thrill to knock them off the poker tables with better cards than theirs :)
My sister was there with me. I don't think she's ever been around anything like this before. She got a great thrill in knocking Layne Flack out of a tournament!
Among the poker pros in attendence were Paul Wolf, Phil Gordon, Phil Ivey, Eric Seidel, Andy Bloch, Howard Ledderer, Clonie Gowen, Chris Ferguson, Mel Judah, and many more.
And the drinks were on the house too. It was hard to complain.
Posted by LarryW at July 6, 2005 04:09 PM