Who is the most famous person you seen play poker at a casino?

[lastsamurai]

I have ran into jerry buss (owner of the lakers) playing johnny chan 400-800 at the bike. Funny thing is this was the day kobe got arrested.

Also Olden Polynice usually plays $10 paigow at the huster (after losing all his money at HP)

[shant]

This thread has been done in the B&M forum.

My answer is Zach De La Rocha(lead singer of Rage Against the Machine) that I playd 3/6 with at Commerce.

[dogmeat]

Congratulations on meeting a famous person. It's fun when you play at the same table and beat them, too.

Dogmeat /images/graemlins/spade.gif

[balt999]

Saw Norm McDonald play 40-80 at the Mirage one night....Saw him scoop one nice pot..seems nice and cordial to everyone.

[bernie]

The Salt Cracka. The once king of OOT.

It's not just a myth. He has played in a raked live game before.

I was too afraid to ask for his autograph. /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

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[wacki]

Greg Raymer.

Thx for the autograph greg.

[Punker]

Brad Garrett (sp?) from Everybody Loves Raymond was on the table beside mine in the WSOP this year. I have also played blackjack with some NHL players like Darian Hatcher.

[Josh W]

Affleck, Tobey McGuire, James Woods, Lou Diamond Phillips, Jerry Buss (he played 25-50!!!).

James Woods, before discovering NL, played 15-30 and 25-50 at the Hustler all the time. We met in confusion over an empty seat, when JW was called to fill it. We talked quite a bit over the next couple months. Whenever I beat him in a pot, he'd ask me 20 questions..."should i have called the turn? should i have checkraised the flop?". I tried to be polite, while uninformative.

Then, one day at commerce he's playing 40-80. A friend of mine comes up to me while I'm waiting for a seat and tells me "OMG...James Woods is playing, I wish I had the bankroll to play that high (friend was playing 20-40)....I love Mr. Woods, he's my favorite actor!!"

I said "hey, I'll introduce you".

"you know him?"

"yeah, we play together a lot at Hustler".

Right them, James sees me, and comes over TO ME and says hi, then starts picking my brain about a hand he lost. My friend just drops his jaw in amazement.

But the best story I've heard is my friend in LV, who was playing 15-30 with ARod, sitting next to him. ARod asked friend "Why aren't you playing bigger, you play really well". Friend didnt have hte money to play in the 80-160 game, and was waiting for the 30-60 game. ARod told friend to put his name on the 80, as ARod would stake him.

Arod left before friend got called, but how cool would it be to be staked by arod? Wicked.

Josh

[whiskeytown]

Kirby Puckett played some 20/40 Stud at Canterbury a few times - bear in mind this was before the harassment scandal - after the retirment, when we were calling every other goddamn street Kirby Puckett Blvd. -

RB

[Josh W]

Oh, my bad. I thought it was most famous person you've played with, not 'seen'.

I've also seen Leonardo DiCaprio and mike l. play.

Josh

[MEbenhoe]

Doug Meyer

[blendedsuit]

5-5 PL hold'em with moneymaker in foxwoods at about 3am over a year ago.

[PairTheBoard]

When the Mirage was new I saw Eddie Murphy being shown the cardroom there. He then went over to play craps with thousand dollar chips. It was amazing to watch all the beautiful women approach his bodyguards for who knows what purposes.

PairTheBoard

[smokingrobot]

The dude who invented the transformers used to play at the Taj all the time. Someone pointed him out to me.

Of course this is heresay, but [censored] i wanna have an answer too.

[Jordan Olsommer]

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The dude who invented the transformers used to play at the Taj all the time. Someone pointed him out to me.

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was he more than meets the eye?

[2+2 wannabe]

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The dude who invented the transformers used to play at the Taj all the time. Someone pointed him out to me.

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was he more than meets the eye?

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awesome!

[Aceshigh7]

Saw Cuttino Mobley (ex-Houston Rocket) playing roulette at a casino in Louisiana.

[deacsoft]

Phil Ivey at Bellagio.

[miajag81]

I saw Keyshawn Johnson playing blackjack at Mandalay Bay when I was in Vegas in March. Looked to be betting $1K+ per hand.

[Roswell]

That's Henry Orenstein. In an interview, Phil Ivey said he couldn't seem to win a hand against Henry.

[Larimani]

Gus Hansen at the 2005 VC Poker Cup

& ZeeJustin at the same event... (he does qualify as famous right?)

[jdoe]

Wife played 1-5 stud with Jack Black

Oct 2001 New orleans. Before poker was "cool"

(he was killing time waiting for an omaha seat)

From a table away, I rember thinking, wow that dude looks just like Jack Black. My wife struck up a quick conversation with him.

WIFE: Hey your jack black.
JB: Yes I am
WIFE: I saw you on the VMA's, you were very good.
JB: Thanks
STONER DUDE IN SEAT 5: So you like, a movie star? What have you been in?
JB: (names some obscure movie)
STONER DUDE IN SEAT 5: Oh, never saw that, have you seen demi moore naked?

BUZZ KILL

[TylerD]

i was playing two tables away from the $2-$4K game when i was in vegas in feb. chan, harmon, hansen, ivey (eatind his dinner off a room service trolley) and forrest were all there at different points throughout my stay.

I've played here in Vancouver with Kevin Smith (Silent Bob) and Jason Mewes a few times. Also ex-NHL star Pavel Bure. A guy people claimed was Roman Abramovich played an entire blackjack table at $500 a hand next to me once also, but I doubt it was really Roman Abramovich, just some russian dude.

[TylerD]

seems like low stakes for Roman Abramovich.

[Aukai]

Played 4/8 with Pat Reily at Harrah's New Orleans. Fun times.

[slavic]

I've played against a noted poker authority.

Yeah, hence my doubt. He was in town at the time, so I think people were just assuming every rich russian dude might be him.

[PairTheBoard]

I played at the make believe tournament table being filmed for the Today Show to feature Johnny Moss and his 80 something birthday. Unfortunately Johnny fell asleep at the table. I don't think it ever aired.

PairTheBoard

[mike l.]

"Congratulations on meeting a famous person."

lmfao, nice.

[J.A.Sucker]

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[octop]

Rich Eisen from Sportcenter playing 2/5 NL
He was hilarious and so was his writer
He also lost his stack to me with his tens as an overpair to my pocket aces

[Your Mom]

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Kirby Puckett played some 20/40 Stud at Canterbury a few times - bear in mind this was before the harassment scandal - after the retirment, when we were calling every other goddamn street Kirby Puckett Blvd. -

RB

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What do people in Minnesota think of Kirby now? It was weird seeing him at the hall of fame inductions.

[Andy B]

I played $15/30 stud against Kirby Puckett about four years ago.

Some well-known poker players I've played against: Greg Raymer, Jack McClelland, Jim Brier (didn't know it was he until later), Denny Axel.

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Kirby Puckett played some 20/40 Stud at Canterbury a few times - bear in mind this was before the harassment scandal - after the retirment, when we were calling every other goddamn street Kirby Puckett Blvd. -

RB

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What do people in Minnesota think of Kirby now? It was weird seeing him at the hall of fame inductions.

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It's like he never existed. People just don't talk about him anymore. Instead Kent Hrbek is the go to guy when reminiscing about the good old days. Herby has a TV show, does advertisements, etc...The Puck on the other hand, not so much.

[Hirez]

Fuji Yakamoto from the Super Dave Osborne show!

who wants to touch me?

[Victor]

on separate occasions, david sklansky, tommy angelo, clarkmeister.

[Talk2BigSteve]

Last year on Thanksgiving weekend I was at the Horseshoe in Tunica and Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz came to play.

Big Steve /images/graemlins/cool.gif

[Moneyline]

Some name dropping for ya...

Played 4/8 with 70s movie psycho David Hess. He was losing and seriously pissed off. I don't think he had to "act" much to play the roles he did.

Routinely saw former Celtic Cedric Maxwell playing stud at Foxwoods. Saw former ECW owner/manager Paul Hayman twice. Saw Tom Vu at the Mirage on Thursday and I almost [censored] my pants.

Played 10/20 with Buddy Williams, the handicapped guy from the season 1 WPT Tunica episode. Nice guy.

Saw Evelyn Ng at McCarran Airport in Vegas. Met Phil Gordon at Foxwoods...

If you play a lot in the big rooms in Vegas you'll see famous players fairly frequently. I've spotted: Hansen, Seidel, Todd Brunson, and a few others... but I've done enough name dropping already.

Jay and Silent Bob, 5-5NL Foxwoods. Pretty sure i saw David Ortiz at Foxwoods at the rainmaker entrance, but i was mildy intoxicated.

[Jeffage]

I played 15-30 hold em with Arod at Bellagio. Very nice guy, gave autographs to lots of people and was very relaxed.

Jeff

[tek]

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What do people in Minnesota think of Kirby now? It was weird seeing him at the hall of fame inductions.

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It's like he never existed. People just don't talk about him anymore.

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He has a friend up north of Brainerd Minn. If you go to the Mule Lake Corral bar between Longville and Hackensack, you just might see him--he's the uh, slightly beefy short guy /images/graemlins/laugh.gif

[henrikrh]

Would love to see Greg Raymer post in this thread...

"I've played against Chan, Brunson, Reese, Hellmuth, Cloutier, Negreneau, Annie Duke and Ivey... all at the same table. That was a while after winning a big tournament though, so I soft-played them."

Haha.

There's a guy that looks a bit like Gus Hansen in a weekly tournament I've started playing in, I'm in Denmark too so for a while I thought it might actually be him, much too low stakes though.

[Mempho]

I have played with David Arquette and Lou Diamond Phillips. I also saw Paris Hilton walk through one night at the Bellagio, on her way to Caramel.

In addition, I have seen the usual tournament group of Toby and James Woods.

Just recently, I was at a celebrity tournament with Cameron Diaz, Daunte Culpepper, Shane Battier, Mike Miller, Terrell Owens, and some others.

[M2d]

I've only played with famous poker people. not real celebs

Tommy Angelo, El Diablo (or was it Ulysses?) JA Sucker, Ray Zee and the Faaaabulous Poker Babe top the list. Also Puggy Pierson, Oklahoma Johnny Hale, Huck Seed and Daniel N (back when he was starting out, not since he's been playing for insane money).

Tom Tolbert used to go to the oaks (not sure if he still does), but I've never played with him. MC Hammer used to come into the Oaks as well, because he father was a long time employee of the club.

[MrMon]

It's not really poker, but it's close...

1995. I'm playing Let It Ride at the Luxor. Very large black gentleman sits next to me with a smaller Hispanic guy. I think nothing of it. They are betting the same as me, $5 a spot. We play awhile, nothing out of the ordinary. Then I notice the really large guy has an All-Star Game ring. I start racking my brain, trying to figure out who this guy could be. I'm not really paying attention to my cards when I get two aces. Of course I Let It Ride because it's an automatic winner.

Who is it? I had been to the A's home opener, which was in Vegas that year because of construction at the stadium in Oakland. But the next game was being played at the time, so it couldn't be one of the A's or whoever they played on Opening Day. Who was Oakland playing the next day?

Dealer turns an A. Hey, three of a kind, that's pretty good. But who is this guy? Detroit was next on the schedule. Who on Detroit played in the All-Star Game? Think, think! But don't be obvious.

Dealer turns another A. It's Cecil Fielder! I just got four aces! It's Cecil Fielder! I just won $750 sitting next to Cecil Fielder! Whoo hoo!

When I turned my hole cards, the table erupted in high fives. A guy who earned $9 million a year was as excited as I was. And he was betting $5 like me.

Sad thing is, I've heard all of Cecil's millions are gone. Apparently he moved on to higher limits and lost it all. But I was there when he bet $5.

[pokerraja]

Im an older guy here, but I played at the same black jack table in atlantic city as saddam hussein back in 1984. I remember him having a ton of body guards and him winning huge sums of money. can anyone top this?

[tek]

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Sad thing is, I've heard all of Cecil's millions are gone. Apparently he moved on to higher limits and lost it all. But I was there when he bet $5.

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Sad when the pendulum swings back...Like Nick the Greek whose 1949 marathon against Johnny Moss (I think) is still talked about. He was playing for low stakes at the end of his life and said something like "It's still action..."

[Iplayragstoo]

Well since this thread has moved from poker to any kind of gambling here goes....

Played with Rosie O'Donell years ago before her talk show at the mirage. We were playing 3/6 at the same table. She was doing a stand up gig at the sands that night.

Played Dice with Magic Johnson, and Ron Harper at the Hard rock a few years back...Ron was very nice talking with people, and talking pictures with anyone that asked.

Played Dice with Emmit Smith years ago at the Hilton, guy was a complete dick, and no one was really trying to talk to him, he was just acting like a spoiled brat.

Saw Tony Danza at the coffe shop in the Orleans, some one asked him for an autograph, and he turned them down flat.

Played poker with Norm McDonald at the Mirgae 10/20 about 1.5 years ago.

Played with are very own Gavin Griffin here in chicago at the Thrump NL game about 8 months ago - he dropped 5k(according to him)

Saw Dennis Franz looking very plain with his wife(I think) playign BJ at the Hollywood in Aurora IL.

Ran face first into Brent Musburger trying to make a bet at the horsebook at the mirage. Tote taker says hes a big regular who bets it up on the ponys. I ran right into him and we almost butted heads. he is Tall...I am 6'3, and he had me buy an inch or two.

[billymonk]

For you Canadians:

I played 2/4 limit to the left of Pat Mastroianni (Joey Jeremiah on Degrassi Junior High/High/The Next Generation and host of Music Works) at Casino Niagra.
Down $7 he complained to me that "that's a pack of smokes". He was also missing "important calls" to play hands.

[Justin Smith]

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The dude who invented the transformers used to play at the Taj all the time. Someone pointed him out to me.

Of course this is heresay, but [censored] i wanna have an answer too.

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The man who invented transformers also;
invented hole cams
produced poker superstars
was said to always give phil ivey a tough time at the
400/800 level
was a Survivor

[1800GAMBLER]

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My answer is Zach De La Rocha(lead singer of Rage Against the Machine) that I playd 3/6 with at Commerce.

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I always have a hard time imagining celebs do day to day things, but this one i really have a hard time imagining, did this really happen? Anything interest happen? Does he tilt? heh.

[burningyen]

Played with J.A. Sucker's avatar at this year's WSOP main event for 4 hours before he busted out. Also saw all the usual suspects as far as poker pros. Ran into Tobey Maguire away from the tables.

[Klepton]

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My answer is Zach De La Rocha(lead singer of Rage Against the Machine) that I playd 3/6 with at Commerce.

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I always have a hard time imagining celebs do day to day things, but this one i really have a hard time imagining, did this really happen? Anything interest happen? Does he tilt? heh.

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i remmeber my brother telling me how zach won with a full house on the river, but the guy had a pretty good hand to, and it was only one bet on the river.

zach said something like "man i knew i shoulda gone for the check-riase"
my brother said something like "nah it's easier that way"

i couldn't believe he never said anyhting about him being in rage. my brother and i listened to that band for so long, i so would've said "you provided me anger for 7 years, thank you."

[Toro]

A lot of posters are listing Poker Pros. That shouldn't count. Of course we've all seen poker pros play if you spend any time at all in a Casino. So my choices don't include them.

Arod and James Woods although you might argue that Woods is a poker pro since he plays so much now but he's really famous for his movies.

[PokerDork]

I played 5-5 pot limit hold em with Alex Rodriguez, when the Yankees were in the town against the Brewers, I picked up pocket Kings potted a bunch of limpers, and only A-rod and I saw the flop. The flop came A high and I bet $50 into an $80 pot and took it down.
Edit: FWIW, he played just about every hand that wasn't reraised before him, he made quads with 84s.

[cookieb]

A woman I swear was Macy Gray at Ceasars Indiana during the Derby weekend a couple years back I was pretty drunk and I sat just as she was leaving (only 4 hands or so), but the look and voice are hard to duplicate

[etizzle]

cameron diaz plays 8/16 at the bellagio

[meow_meow]

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was he more than meets the eye?

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You bastard.
Now I have to go get some Q-tips to squeegee the coffee off my keyboard. Also, my office mates now think I'm a moron for spitting coffee at my computer for no apparent reason.
Thanks a lot.

[siccjay]

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Im an older guy here, but I played at the same black jack table in atlantic city as saddam hussein back in 1984. I remember him having a ton of body guards and him winning huge sums of money. can anyone top this?

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No chance.

[Bulldog]

Who is more famous, Paul Junior from American Chopper or John Hennigan?

[cwsiggy]

Paul Jr. and its not close.

[Jett Rink]

Drew Carey at Rama.

[Jordan Olsommer]

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Paul Junior from American Chopper

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Did his father come into the casino and grab him and say "PAULIE, GET THE BIKE DONE OR I'M GONNA SHOVE THESE SIZE TWELVES UP YOUR BUTT"?

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Wife played 1-5 stud with Jack Black

Oct 2001 New orleans. Before poker was "cool"

(he was killing time waiting for an omaha seat)

From a table away, I rember thinking, wow that dude looks just like Jack Black. My wife struck up a quick conversation with him.

WIFE: Hey your jack black.
JB: Yes I am
WIFE: I saw you on the VMA's, you were very good.
JB: Thanks
STONER DUDE IN SEAT 5: So you like, a movie star? What have you been in?
JB: (names some obscure movie)
STONER DUDE IN SEAT 5: Oh, never saw that, have you seen demi moore naked?

BUZZ KILL

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Jack Black's great. On a slightly related note, I played Project Gotham Racing 2 online with someone who seemed to be Jack Black.

[gadflier]

All at Commerce:
1. Saw James Woods just last week. Asked him how he did, he said nicely flat. Was able not to tell him how much I liked all his movies blah blah, which I am proud of myself for.
2. Had a nice short talk with Johnny Chan a few months ago table-side (he was backing one of my competitors).
3. Had a nice short talk at the cage last year with Chad Brown (he seemed genuinely surprised to be recognized).
4. Played at the 100 (might have been 200) NL buy in table not too long after ESPN showed 03 WSOP final table. Moneymaker was wearing the glasses, etc. Ben Affleck (and remember this is some time ago) was also playing that night (torrential rain storm).

And of course if you go to the Bellagio you will see whomever on any random night in the poker world.

Outside of the casino, let me say that the nicest chat definitely goes to Mr. Ferguson, on our way to Vegas on Southwest airlines (he to play a WPT event, me to work).

[srm80]

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Im an older guy here, but I played at the same black jack table in atlantic city as saddam hussein back in 1984. I remember him having a ton of body guards and him winning huge sums of money. can anyone top this?

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that man doesn't deserve to breathe

No chance.

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