And to test this out I emailed Chops and asked him to name an actor, any actor, and I’d try to somehow connect him/her in a six degrees of poker separation kind of way to starlet banger/pro surfer Kelly Slater, who said something recently about, you guessed it, poker.
Chops’ reply:
“Not sure of his name, but howabout the fetus at the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey.”
Ok. I guess I’m on my own here.
So let’s go with someone we recently mentioned, Daniel Craig, and link it along the way to some recent “poker” stories we’ve featured here and, of course, go off on tangents as I see fit.
Here we go:
Daniel Craig, who is
until she got tired of him tossing cards with
And yes, the surfer had this to say afterwards:
"I was pretending I was playing poker and I didn’t want anyone to see my poker face. I was trying to contain the excitement, the nervousness, the anxiety!"
So I’m guessing Slater plays poker, and if so, he may not be keeping the lovely Gisele, who just was on the runway for Victoria’s Secret annual fashion shindig, around for too long. Remember, she hates poker, or
And speaking of Hollywood, our friends over at HollywoodPoker.com, “where the stars (allegedly) come to play” and who we
HollywoodPoker.com’s Vince Van Patten commented, "The girls look spectacular."
He said some other things too, I’m sure.
For those who voted back whenever they did the voting for this or want to see if we were wrong in
Christina Hall (Reno, NV), Amber Marie Mekush (Los Angeles, CA), Ashley Dorenzo (Detroit, MI), Mercedes Terrell (Fullerton, CA), Leslie Gomez (Fontana, CA), Erin Muller (Fort Lauderdale, CA), Heidi Blair (Los Angeles, CA), Mary Castro (Downey, CA), Melany Lorenzo (San Diego, CA), Meriah Nelson (Los Angeles, CA), Misty Woods (Houston, TX) and Christine Nguyen (Los Angeles, CA).
By the way, the girls were all photographed by John Russo, a celebrity photographer who has snapped pics of Eva Longoria and Pamela Anderson, which makes me wonder why Las Vegas Vegas Vegas Vegas’s master photog Flip Chip spends all his time pointing that camera thingamagig at smelly old men sitting around a table and not " Desperate Housewives" and those of the " Stacked" kind.
One more Hollywood thing, apparently Phil Gordon is bailing on Celebrity Poker Showdown, so says Oddjack, peeps at Blind Bet Poker, and Poker News Daily.
:: snake
November 10, 2005 10:52 am,
Can you six-degree it w/ this one: Richard Dimitri?
November 10, 2005 11:07 am,
yeh Dimitri was a fargin icehole in “johnny dangerously” with Michael keaton who was in “Herbie Fully Loaded” with Lindsay Lohan who was bonking Wilmer from that’s 70s show who plays poker with Leo who was snogging Gisele until she dumped him for Kelly Slater.
November 10, 2005 8:10 pm,
The fetus from 2001 was Kevin Bacon’s stunt double in “Footloose”.