DOYLESROOM.COM Celebrity Bounty Tourney

Fishhead · Jan 31, 2006

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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]DOYLESROOM.COM IS THE NEW CELEBRITY POKER HOT-SPOT[/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][/FONT]

</TD><TD align=right width=49>[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<< Back[/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][/FONT]</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top align=left colSpan=2><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 align=left border=0><TBODY></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>By DoylesRoom.com</TD><TD align=right>Posted: 2006/01/30 </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Kevin Connolly & Nicky Hilton Join the Game [/FONT]

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>Kevin Connolly stars in the Golden Globe nominated HBO hit series "Entourage.” Nicky Hilton is the younger of the Hilton sisters and heiress to the Hilton hotel fortune. Both will compete alongside other celebrities in the tournament<O

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>The DoylesRoom.com Celebrity Bounty Poker Tournament is a natural outgrowth of the wildly successful DoylesRooom.com Bounty Poker Tournaments – where avid online poker players have the opportunity to play along with the likes of 10-time World Series of Poker Champion Doyle Brunson and other prominent poker professionals.<O

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>Each week, DoylesRoom.com hosts a Celebrity Bounty Poker Tournament. With $25,000 in cash prizes, the event is recognized by many leading poker analysts and A-list celebrities as the best poker tournament event online. To win the generous $25,000 cash prize, simply knock out all three of the bounty players. A $10,000 consolation prize is awarded if two bounties are knocked out by a single player and $250 awarded to the person that knocks out any one bounty. <O

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>Scheduled to start Thursday (Feb.2nd) at <ST1:TIME w:st="on" minute="0" hour="21">9:00 PM EDT</ST1:TIME> (<ST1:TIME w:st="on" minute="0" hour="1">1:00 am GMT</ST1:TIME>), the game is Texas Hold'em with 12 minute rounds and no re-buys; the prize pool is in the tens of thousands of dollars. This week’s Bounty Tournament features Nicky Hilton, the legendary Doyle Brunson and Golden Globe nominee Kevin Connolly.<O

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FatTony · Jan 31, 2006

Wife of O's pitcher 'dead serious' about poker

Associated Press
Posted: 5 hours ago

Anna Benson could find herself getting plenty of face time on ESPN in the coming year. Not during baseball games, but more likely during one of the network's ubiquitous poker broadcasts.

The wife of Orioles pitcher Kris Benson has been polishing her game by playing nearly every day, whether online, on her cell phone or even live and in person. She also recently signed a deal to endorse and promote a fledgling poker Web site.

"I'm still a young little poker player. I've got a long ways to go,'' Benson said. "It is a thrill to me. They call it a sport now, so it's kind of cool for me to come in and be my own type of an athlete.

"I'm hoping to really amass an empire with this poker. I love to give money away to charities, to change people's lives.''

Benson represents a unique kind of endorser — she appeals to two unique groups of consumers — those who read magazines like Maxim and FHM, and those who follow professional sports.

Benson signed a multiyear deal with Golden Spirit Poker, a company that renamed itself from Golden Spirit Mining and refocused on online gaming. She will link to the Golden Spirit site from her personal Web site, as well as have a site named for her which redirects to Golden Spirit's main site.

She plans to play her first official hand on the site Thursday night. The site lists other casino games as "coming soon'' but sports gambling will not be available.

Rich Levin, spokesman for the commissioner's office, declined to comment on Benson's affiliation with Golden Spirit.

Kris Benson was recently traded to Baltimore by the New York Mets. Anna Benson had made comments critical of her husband's teammate, Carlos Delgado, and upset some in the Mets organization by wearing a racy Santa costume to the team's holiday party.

Several months before the World Series of Poker in July, Benson became interested in the game. She entered the series, was eliminated after a few days, but plans to return to Las Vegas this summer a better player.

"I'm going to get schooled on how to play by some of these big-time pros,'' Benson said. "I want to play well. I'm not trying to do this as a joke, I'm dead serious about playing. I'm not like some bimbo sitting down at a table.''