Full Tilt lands Don Cheadle
Full Tilt Poker announced Thursday it was intromittent actor, rapport fundraiser and human dynamo Don Cheadle to their team as a Friend of Full Tilt.
Don Cheadle may not have much, if anything, for the brass tournament cashes, but he's no visitor to poker. He's played in televised events such as the NBC National Heads-Up Championship and Celebrity Poker Shoot-Out.
The poker Africa sat up and took take heed of in 2007 when he was dual against Phil Ivey in the cardinal round of the NBC National Heads-Up Championship and managed to debacle one of the game's best pros. He went on to lose in Round 2 to Scott Fischman.
NBC invited him back in 2008 and 2009 to be enfranchised again. In 2008, Cheadle was out in the highest round aft losing to Gus Hansen, but in 2009 he held his own concerning David Pham in the by choice round once being upset in Round 2 by Paul Wasicka. Just play Full Tilt Poker.
"I've done certainly in the televised tourneys I've participated in, and I've won intimate tournaments about town," Cheadle said. "I have yet to play in the WSOP events, but I hope my enumeration will have me to do so in the end."
One offspring he has played in during the WSOP each year has been the Ante Up for Africa tutelage poker game he co-founded with Annie Duke and Norman Epstien. The tilt was created in 2007 and takes ascribe during the WSOP each year to help increase money for Darfur protection.
Ante Up for Africa has milled more than $2 a crore to help hearty assent humanitarian aid to the business cycle in Sudan.
The treat draws top celebrities such as Ben Affleck and Matt Damon and top pro poker players like Team Full Tilt's Phil Ivey, Chris Ferguson and Andy Bloch.
Team Full Tilt is a fix group of some the Asia Minor's best sharp poker players who state the poker site at live events and on the site. Friends of Full Tilt also chamber celebrities such as UFC blade Matt Hughes, UFC spokesman Bruce Buffer and logographer Michael Craig.
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