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