Matt Damon And Other Celebrities To Play In Charity Poker Tournament

To all poker aficionados out there! Want to have a poker experience very memorable? Just imagine joining in a charity poker tournament, sitting at the card table with Matt Damon on the right side and Charles Barkley on your left!










And imagine that your friends stares back at you, wide-eyed, star struck,and exhorting you to go on, they're obviously enthralled at you!



Now you're playing poker, your seeking for luck. You dealt with 2 Queens, then the flop comes: 2 Queens and Jack and then you see the cast of Ocean Thirteen's Don Cheadle at the end of the table.

Delighting stories like these are few and far between , however, when they come along, they are told an retold for a lifetime!






















Famous celebrities are not hard to find in a city like Las Vegas but it's rare to find oneself at the table as well as a renowned celebrity, let alone a group of celebrities.



And now to announce that Ante Up For Africa is filled with high-caliber Hollywood personalities and offering a chance to play poker against and alongside well-known celebrities and poker professionals!

















Want to know some of the renowned celebrities who are playing poker against you? The actor and poker player Matt Damon, the basketball NBA super star Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith and Reggie Miller.













Actor Don Cheadle, TV host and poker player Montel Williams, actor, producer, comedian, writer, and director Marlon Wayans, comedienne, writer, actress, singer and musician Sarah Silverman, actor Cassey Affleck, film and television actor, director, comedian and voice artist Hank Azaria, actor, voice actor and stand-up comedian Brad Garrett, and retire NFL Herschel Walker will also participate!









Also taking part of the event, poker professional Howard Leaderer, MIT Blackjack Team Member Andy Bloch, Full Tilt Poker player Erik Seidel, and the living legend of poker with 11 World Series of Poker Bracelet wins Phil Hellmuth will also compete for the prize!




















The tournament is being organized in support of Ante Up for Africa, which helps victims of ongoing humanitarian crises in Darfur and Sudan.























Don Cheadle started the nonprofit 3 years ago, along with professional poker player and recent “Celebrity Apprentice” star Annie Duke who won an envied World Series of Poker bracelet in 2004 and has collected more than $4 million in poker tournament winnings and Norman Epstein.


















Ante Up For Africa started in 2006, and they had raised nearly $ 2,000,000.

Anyone can enter the tournament, provided they’re at least 21 years old and are able to Ante Up the $5,000 entry fee.

Meanwhile, those who prefer to watch can do that for free!






















The contest will get underway at 2 p.m. on July 2 at the Rio Convention Center’s Amazon Ballroom. The tournament is expected to last no more than five hours from start to finish, and will be followed by a post-poker party at Caesars Palace.


The tournament will air as a three-hour special on Aug. 11 on ESPN.

This year’s Ante Up for Africa effectively serves as an outset for the 2009 World Series of Poker Tournament, which will get underway the following day.

The World Series of Poker last year attracted 58,720 players from 124 different countries and doled out $180 million in prize money.

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PokerStar's High Roller Champion

The “Lady Maverick” is currently completing her third year of law school and rank in the top 5 of her class at University of Miami School of Law. Vanessa Rousso is also the youngest woman poker professional to compete in the World Series Of Poker Final Event and one of the top 10 female money earners of all time on the World Series Of Poker (WSOP) and World Poker Tournament (WPT) circuits.




Vanessa Rousso also graduated in Duke University in 2 and a half years,ad now pursuing a law career.

While her counterparts routinely pursue internships prior to law school graduation in order to gain practical legal experience, Vanessa spends summers traveling the country to compete in professional poker tournaments.






How she dealt with it? In April 2006, she finished a law school exam, hustle and bustle to the airport, arrived


within seconds of missing her flight, and flew to Las Vegas, Nevada, to take part in the World Poker Tour World Championships.


Vanessa Rousso not only aced the law school exam, but she also finished 7th in the World Poker Tour World Championships.



Vanessa Rousso's Earnings



With less than 3 years of professional play behind her, Vanessa Rousso has already earned close to $2 million playing tournament poker both live and online while earning a law degree on the side.




Vanessa Ruosso earned more than $680,000 in 2005 on the World Series of Poker and World Poker Tour circuits. She is also in the 7th place in a field of more than 600 of the World's top professionals at the World Poker Tour Championship event.

She has won 4 World Series of Poker events, including an 8th place finish in this year's $5,000 event. Most recently, she finished in 1st place at the World Poker Tour Borgata Open, winning almost $300,000.

She also cashed the ladies event in 45th place, and picked up an extra couple of grand when she won one of the Palms' Daily Tournaments. In the fall Vanessa returned to law school, and played poker whenever she had a chance either online or traveling to small buy-in tournaments on breaks.

She made 3 cashes and 2 final tables in early 2006, her biggest score coming in the $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Event at Atlantic City's Wold Series Of Poker-Circuit stop where she banked $17,550. That's when Vanessa Rousso got a funny idea in her head — she wanted to play in the $25,000 World Poker Tour Championships.

Vanessa Ruosso ground her way to a 7th place finish and a $263,625 score, busting on the TV final-table bubble when Vanessa's A-K fell to James Van Alstyne's A-J.





In EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final High Roller last May 1, 2009, she outlasted other poker pros and even celebrities to elevate in the 1st place and take home $946, 696.

Her undisputed performance at Bellagio wowed everyone and soon she was given out to be part as a member of The PokerStars' Team and also signed as the newest Go Daddy girl and will be joining the most dominant domain name registrar in the world.

With her renowned success, she is now a volunteer of Toys and Tales, Walk for the Cure, the Palm Beach Youth Court, the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and the Center for Race Relations at Duke University. She is also an instructor for the World Poker Tour Boot Camp.






Vanessa Rousso As A Female Poker Player



A woman winning the World Series is just a matter of time, she maintains, as the number of skilled female poker players in the biggest action continues to elevate.




The fact is, Vanessa says, women at poker tables tend to be viewed through a filter of faulty perceptions.

"Women are perceived as very tight players, that we can't bluff, but the fact is we've been bluffing for centuries. We're better at it than you guys . . ."

"And so the best women players can use this misconception or stereotype to their advantage." Vanessa Rousso commented.





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