January 18, 2006
The first celebrities to exit the pokerparty tournament and tell their bad beat stories were former Los Angeles Ram superstar Deacon Jones, followed by Rossi Morreale (Junkyard Mega Wars), Erik Palladino (ER), Dean Cain (Superman), James Woods, Ed Asner, Ty Treadway (SoapNet), Chris Rich (Reba), Sarah Gilbert (ER) and Macauley (MAC) Culkin.
Other pokerparty celebrities in the chips were Jennifer Tilly, Laura Prepon (That '70s Show), Wil Wheaton (Star Trek: Next Generation), Adrian Young (No Doubt), David Sutcliffe (The Gilmore Girls), Gabe Kaplan (Welcome Back Kotter), Hill Harper (CSI:NY), Jeremy London (7th Heaven), comedian Kathy Griffin, Kelly Packard (Baywatch, Ripley's Believe It or Not), supermodel Natalia Vodianova, Skeet Ulrich (Scream), Tanya Roberts (That '70s Show), Tom Everett Scott (That Thing You Do), Traci Bingham, (Baywatch) and Willie Garson (Sex and the City).
Bright and early (11AM, to be exact!), 92 runners came to the line for the PokerParty tournament, including Hilton, actress and World Series champion Jennifer Tilly, actress Shannon Elizabeth and a strong outpouring of pokerparty pros ready for battle. Phil "The Unabomber" Laak joined his lady Tilly at the tables as well as fellow pros Cyndy Violette, Chip and Karina Jett, 2004 WSOP runner-up David Williams, 2005 WSOP Tournament of Champions winner Mike Matusow and Antonio "The Magician" Esfandiari, among others.
With $2,000 bounties on each of the celebrities and pokerparty players, there was some potential for money to be made. Nicky Hilton showed her mettle at the tables as she lasted about two hours into the event, but there was one bounty that went unclaimed. Shannon Elizabeth was able to outlast the field and take down the first place prize out of the $120,000 pool.
Freeroll pokerparty tournaments are one of the best ways to pump up your pokerparty bankroll, and the people at Noble Pokerparty have come up with an innovation that will offer the opportunity for someone to walk off with the largest tournament win in either online or live pokerparty history.
Noble Pokerparty is offering a freeroll tournament in April that has online qualifiers running now. Over $500,000 in prizes will be awarded at the event but, once the tournament reaches the final table, play will be suspended until May. The combatants will then be flown to a secret location to play pokerparty com down to the champion and the potential of a $100 million payday.
