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Thursday, June 23, 2011

Spiderman's a Shark?

Looks like a series of high-stakes underground A-list celebrity cash games has been unearthed.  And guess who's getting sued for winning?  Spiderman's Tobey Maguire.

From what I've read, the game's sharks were Tobey Maguire and Ben Affleck.  Donks apparently included Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio.  High Stakes Poker announcer Gabe Kaplan was a regular, as was poker pro Dan Bilzarian, who's also being sued.  Bilzarian had some choice words here for Brad Ruderman, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison last year for operating a wire fraud and investment adviser fraud scheme that lost investors $25 million.  $5.2 million of those dollars were lost on the underground celeb games and duped investors are suing to get that money back.  Good luck with that.
ABC coverage, KGO coverage, Card Player coverage, TMZ here and here.  Watch the news video here or click "Read More."

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3 comments:

  1. William WhiteJuly 1, 2011 at 11:02 AM

    Update - Macguire defends himself, sort of: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/43601453/ns/today-entertainment/

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  2. William WhiteJuly 2, 2011 at 4:56 PM

    Update - ESPN reports MLB is investigating A-Rod's participation in the game:
    http://sports.espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/news/story?id=6731932&campaign=rss&source=MLBHeadlines

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  3. William WhiteJuly 7, 2011 at 10:42 AM

    Update - Ben Affleck lost a $400,000 hand in the cash game:
    http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/report_affleck_lost_card_one_hand_aY9UZ1mgaAo5K64jPvuCOL

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