Online poker is enjoying an increase in popularity due to tournaments on television as well as the growth of the game online, and the highest ranked players are quickly rising to celebrity status.
Matt Damon with his best friend Ben Affleck and other celebrities teamed up with a host of celebrities for a charity poker game in Las Vegas. Celebrities like: Adam Sandler, Don Cheadle, Kevin James, Ray Romano, Brad Garrett, Montel Williams, Martin Sheen and Shannon Elizabeth tried their hands at the poker charity event Up For Africa at the Rio Hotel in Sin City last ThursdayJuly 2, 2009.
The event raised money for Enough Project and the International Rescue Committee, which aids survivors form the Darfur crisis.
Matt Damon who was trained trained by 11 time World Series Of Poker star Phil Hellmuth for his role in the 1998 movie Rounders, where he played a law school student who loses his tuition money in a high stakes poker game, only to be dragged back into the circuit to pay debts incurred to a Russian mobster. The lessons must have took, because Damon has since then played in major Poker tournament who won the Commerce Casino's California State Poker Championship.
Matt Damon also participated in the Cannes Film Festival with Ben Affleck. They played poker for their chosen charities.
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck played for Not On Our Watch, who Matt Damon just traveled to Zimbabwe with, and One Voice For Freedom, whose patrons include Sir Michael and Lady Caine, the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
Sponsored by Lucky 888.com where The Cannes Charity Poker Event Final happened last May 2009 have seven tables, each with at least one A-List celebrity: Matt Damon or Ben Affleck on each table.
Matt Damon is a regular entrant in the annual World Series of Poker, and his most interesting WSOP story occurred back in 1998. Miramax Studios entered both he and Edward Norton in the WSOP Main Event $10,000 buy-in to promote the upcoming Rounders. He is considered an excellent poker player and was rumored to have been offered a $1 million endorsement from online gambling giant Nine.com.
About Matt Damon: After some surprise appearances in films like Finding Forrester, The Majestic and Eurotrip, Damon teamed up with Greg Kinnear for the Farrelly brothers' Stuck on You (2003). In 2004, year he reprised his role as Jason Bourne for the blockbuster sequel, The Bourne Supremacy.
After rejoining his Hollywood posse for 2004's Ocean's Twelve, Damon can add The Brothers Grimm and Syriana to his resume in 2005.
In 2007, the actor tapped into his reserve of blockbuster franchises for the three-quels Ocean's Thirteen and The Bourne Ultimatum, the latter of which netted him by far the largest opening-weekend take of his career to that point. On the indie side, he joined with Mark Ruffalo, Anna Paquin, and Matthew Broderick for Kenneth Lonergan's sophomore directorial effort Margaret, and he contributed his efforts to the endurance-race documentary Running the Sahara.
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