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.

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

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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

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

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