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

[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 [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[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.