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[Bodog Beat :: Bodog Sports Casino Poker :: News and Information] The 1998 film "Rounders", starring Matt Damon and Ed Norton, introduced much of the world to no-limit Texas Hold'em, and is widely credited at having started the current poker craze. Many purists prefer the 1965 Steve McQueen classic "The Cincinnati Kid" as the poker film (usually the same gamblers that favor "The Hustler" over "The Color of Money" for pool flicks).
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[Dajoro] Infotainment Friday! [from Whitney to ThomTomKat]: The performances, featuring artists U2, Coldplay, Madonna, Dave Matthews Band, Jay-Z and Destiny's Child among many others, are being held in eight cities to raise awareness of poverty in Africa.The telecast is a repeat performance for MTV, which showed the Live Aid concerts two decades ago. Like Live Aid, the Live 8 performances are being organized by Bob Geldof.
[Tao of Poker: A Poker Blog] Random Townehouse Gambling, Party Poker Reload, an...: The conversation picked up a bit, from mundane to excruciating, when a flurry of people came over to me the moment they found out I played poker. Briana's cousin mistakenly told them that I would be "announcing the World Series of Poker." I dunno if she was drunk on overpriced wine, socially retarded, or trying to impress he peers and party guests with inflating the significance of my new job in Las Vegas.
[Tao of Pauly: The Rants and Ramblings of McGrupp] Random Townehouse Gambling and Movie Quotes Toni ...: Yeah, she was a freakazoid and I fell out of interest quickly after I discovered she was popping more prescription meds than me (and I was taking them for recreational purposes). The poor girl was fucked in the head and would dive into Elizabeth Wurtzel's melodramatic-like rants on the subway with angry black women who wanted to punch her in the face.
[Taopoker.blogspot.com] Tao of Poker: A Poker Blog: Here's one of my favorite parts to his last entry: "My stack was up to 750 at this point, and I was running out of energy. There were two chubby, drunk looking girls watching the game from the rail for around an hour.
[Adapdev.com] Vini Vidi Vici - Sean McCormack's Blog [MVP] - Movie Review: Hide ...: (calculator odds party poker) "video poker review" And those flicks just leave more questions than answers.
[20below.mainetoday.com] 20 Below in MaineToday.com - September 2004 Movie Time archives: Matt Damon and Edward Norton star as two poker players, one a talented rookie who's dream is to play at the world series in Vegas, the other a hustler and card cheat who plays for money not glory (respectively). The film follows the two friends through the gambling underworld of Chicago and the trials they go through to reach fame and fortune.
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