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

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)

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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.

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

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

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The Salt Cracka. The once king of OOT.

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

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Greg Raymer.

Thx for the autograph greg.

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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.

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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

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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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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

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Doug Meyer

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

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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

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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 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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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!

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

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Phil Ivey at Bellagio.

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

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

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Gus Hansen at the 2005 VC Poker Cup

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

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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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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.

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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.

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seems like low stakes for Roman Abramovich.

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

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I've played against a noted poker authority.

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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.

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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

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"Congratulations on meeting a famous person."

lmfao, nice.

jennicide N/T
 

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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

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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. -

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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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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. -

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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.

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Fuji Yakamoto from the Super Dave Osborne show!

who wants to touch me?

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

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

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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.

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