Non Poker Celebrity Victories in the WSOP
Jennifer Tilly's victory in the Womens Hold Em event this year garnered quite a bit of media coverage due to her notoriety as an actress. Ben Affleck's win in the California Poker Championship last year captured quite a bit of attention as well.
I was in a bar recently watching a rebroadcast of the 1997 WSOP main event. After Gilbert Gottfried won this event there was nary a mention of it in the press afterward.
Poker in 1997 was not the mania that it is today but you would think that a comedian competing against grizzled poker veterans would have warranted some attention.
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