Tunney Wins Poker Celebrity Showdown
Robin Tunney, who plays attorney Veronica Donovan on the hit show "Prison Break," was the last person standing after Thursday night's PokerRoom.com celebrity online poker showdown held at a $15 million mansion in Hollywood Hills in anticipation of the upcoming MTV Movie Awards.
Tunney won the tournament beating out Amanda Columbus for the grand prize package valued at approximately $50,000, plus a spot on Team PokerRoom. com for the upcoming "World Series of Poker" main event in July. The invite-only poker tournament sponsored by PokerRoom. com was held at a posh home in the Hollywood Hills in conjunction with Kari Feinstein's Style Lounge and famed LA night club, ViperRoom, to benefit YouthAIDS, a non-profit organization that works to educate and protect young people from HIV/AIDS.
At approximately 12:30 AM on Friday, Tunney and Amanda Columbus, a friend of Shannon Elizabeth, were even in chips after a second hand of heads up. The final hand started with a raise and call in the pre-flop. The pre-flop came King, Jack, Four, unsuited. Columbus pushed all-in and Tunney called with bottom pair Nine, Four.
Columbus held Queen, Six. The turn came Jack and river Ace with Tunney on top to end the PokerRoom. com tournament. She was excited and elated at having beaten several very good players. During the presentation of the grand prize package, PokerRoom.com spokesperson Glenn Cademartori announced that Tunney would receive a buy-in for the "World Series of Poker" main event worth $10,500 and a spot on Team PokerRoom. com, a group of more than a hundred up-and-coming poker players who compete at some of the most prominent poker tournaments, including the World Poker Tour Finals.
Team members duke it out for available spots at tournaments, but also learn from each other by comparing strategies and their experiences. Several Team PokerRoom.com members participated in this exclusive event in Hollywood Hills, rubbing elbows with many celebrity poker players. The celebrity poker showdown was hosted by Jim Davenport, a 25-year-old University of Southern California graduate from Newport Beach, California, who became a professional poker player in March 2006 after receiving an endorsement package valued at $250,000 from Poker Room dot com.
June 9, 2006
Posted By James Stevenson
Staff Editor, CasinoGamblingWeb.com
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