Why is poker seeping through Hollywood?
It seems like everyone in the movies plays poker… Poker is really cool. Poker is where the action is these days, and Hollywood is always in the center of the action. The reason why I’m involved in HollywoodPoker.com, along with Vince Van Patten, the cohost of The World Poker Tour, is because we’d love to have a website where we can all play and enjoy the company of, not only other celebrities, but the poker players that I am interested in playing with. It’s a kind of wonderful mix when you get celebrities interacting with their public. It usually happens at an event where — and I think this is sort of shameless — you have a big movie premiere and you’re walking down a red carpet, and the poor fans are stuck behind a velvet rope. I always make an extra effort to go and sign autographs — l like interacting with my fans. So I thought: “Hey, here’s a website where I can interact with my fans and at the same time play, and hopefully beat, all my celebrity friends.” And we get to play w
