Business Wire: Hollywood Poker Announces Winners in World Poker Tour Celebrity Shootouts I and II; L

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- Hollywood Poker (http://www.hollywoodpoker.com) proved it wasn't bluffing with its impressive turnout for The Hollywood Poker World Poker Tour Celebrity Shootouts I and II. Kane Hodder ("Jason X") slashed his way through the celebrity competition to join Josh Malina ("West Wing") as the last celebrities standing in their respective tournaments. Together they will represent Hollywood Poker, along with James Woods, Vince Van Patten and tournament winners Aron Marquitz and Patrick Johnson from Celebrity Shootouts I and Shootout II, in the World Poker Tour Legends of Poker event August 27th in Bell Gardens, California. There they will compete for the grand prize and a chance to call themselves legends. Marquitz and Johnson took down first place prize money from the $10,000 guaranteed prize pools for each tournament, as well.

Josh Malina, playing on behalf of the celebrities from the first tournament, boasted, "I love playing on HollywoodPoker.com. I am a huge fan of the World Poker Tour and I could not be more psyched to represent Hollywood Poker."

Pamela Gidley ("Mafia!") made her presence felt, becoming the last lady-celebrity standing and earning a seat to the ladies event at the Bicycle Casino. She shared, "HollywoodPoker.com is quickly becoming my new obsession. I am honored to represent the ladies of Hollywood Poker at the ladies tournament at the WPT at the Bike." She will be playing in the Ladies Event on August 31st for the opportunity to win a spot to the World Poker Tour Ladies Night tournament on September 1st and be the only non-invitee allowed to play with the toughest ladies on the planet (visit http://www.worldpokertour.com for more details).

Celebrities who participated in Celebrity Shootouts I and II, included James Woods, Kirk Acevedo ("Band of Brothers"), Joshua Malina, Kane Hodder, Nicholas Gonzalez ("Anacondas 2"), Jon Landau (Titanic), Vince Van Patten ("World Poker Tour"), Michael Woods ("Rudy: The Rudy Guiliani Story"), Michael Ian Black ("Stella"), Jon Favreau ("Swingers"), Jonathan Baker ("The Amazing Race"), Seth Meyers ("Saturday Night Live"), Anthony Denison ("The Closer"), Kelli Williams ("The Practice"), Ken Howard ("Crossing Jordan"), Jimmy Van Patten, Scott Baio ("Charles in Charge"), James Woods ("Pretty Persuasion"), Erik Palladino ("Over There"), Alan Rosenberg ("Robots"), Morris Chestnut ("Boyz n the Hood"), Tom McGowan ("As Good as it Gets"), Bob Goen ("Entertainment Tonight"), Noah Emmerich ("The Truman Show"), Yancey Arias ("One Life to Live"), Pamela Gidley, Brad Sherwood ("Whose Line is it Anyway"), Joe Cortese ("American History X"), Ronny Cox ("Total Recall"), Mimi Rogers ("Austin Powers"), Michael Kane ("All The Right Moves"), and Timothy Busfield ("Field of Dreams").

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