Victoria “Vicky” Coren: European Poker Hottie

A fascinating author, journalist, TV personaliy and a poker player, take your pick and put them in any order. Vicky Coren is one of the poker hottie stopped all the bad boys fighting at school and made them all be friends again. She looks good, likes a cigarette and plays poker that pretty much ticks all the boxes of every bad boy in town. Who can resist that!

Victoria “Vicky” Coren is a talented player, one who has a major win to her credit. A true new dawn woman, she is famous for a great deal outside the poker world. Victoria Coren has been playing poker for 15 years, since she was a teenager. She is primarily a cash player, based at the Grosvenor Victoria Casino in London, but has been taking part in international tournaments since 2001.

She has impressed onlookers and rivals with her sophisticated play at this years European Poker Tournament (EPT) event in London. Victoria has cashed in several major tournaments at “The Vic” and was the winner of the 2004 Celebrity Poker Challenge. And off course the 1st ever woman to win an EPT event.

Vicky Coren was also one of the regulars in the original few series of Late Night Poker as well as the champion of one of the first celebrity poker shows, Celebrity Poker Club, which wouldn’t normally be a big determinant of skill but the final table did feature Steve Davis, Barry Hearn, Norman Pace and Willie Thorne, all of whom are serious poker players. Coren also presented a number of poker shows, including more recent series of Late Night Poker.

Off the poker table, Vicky Coren writes for a range of British newspapers, has written 3 books and presents various radio and TV programmes for the BBC and Channel 4. She is a presenter of the BBC show Balderdash and Piffle, and BBC Radio’s Off the Page. Her television and writing skills alone would make her a fabulously successful person.

Vicky Coren is a true asset for PokerStars. Also, a highly visible as both a poker journalist, who writes weekly columns for "The Observer" and "The Guardian". Though Vicky Coren isn't as well known in the US, however, she is one the top ten poker hotties in Europe. With her charming poker skills makes her appealing as a hottest poker player.

Vicky Coren is now the second highest earning female tournament player in England and 11th highest female poker player in the world, which is remarkable considering she is predominantly a cash game player and doesn’t play many tournaments. Victoria has earned the respect of fans and her fellow pro players. She is a member of Team PokerStars Pro and plays online poker using the screen name ‘Vicky Coren’.

Vicky Coren may be as much a great journalist and a poker player, but make no mistake Vicky Coren is a true hot poker player and will always be one of the favorites all over the world at any table she sits at.

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Jennifer “Unabombshell” Tilly: Celebrity Poker Hottie

Jennifer Tilly is the modish celebrity poker hottie making shakes in the women's poker circuit. She made history when she became the first Hollywood star to take home a World Series of Poker gold bracelet Ladies' No Limit Hold'em event. She then broke records again by finishing the invitational 2005 World Poker Tour Ladies night. Her WPT win made her the first woman to win both the major World Poker Tour and World Series Of Poker women's events.

Jennifer Tilly has been best known as an actress, having performed on top of 100 movies and television shows such as Bound, Bride of Chucky, and Liar Liar. Tilly is most known for her appearance in Woody Allen’s Bullets Over Broadway, in which Tilly was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Jennifer Tilly has also done a lot of voice-over work including roles such as the killer doll Tiffany in Child’s Play, and as the voice of the Griffin Family’s neighbor Bonnie in the hit TV show, Family Guy.

Jennifer Tilly became stitch up with poker in the same way that many other Hollywood celebrities have in the last few years, through playing on television celebrity poker programs. She has appeared on Game Show Network’s Poker Royale as well as on Poker Superstars III, where she was busted in the preliminaries. Other TV appearances include Bravo’s Celebrity Poker Showdown and ESPN’s Pro-Am Poker Equalizer, where she appeared as a celebrity.

She became the hottest poker player during her break out performance in the ladies No Limit Texas Holdem World Series Of Poker in 2005 when she won the title and took home the $156,825.

Jennifer Tilly outlasted 600 women including She outlasted some tough players, including touring pro Isabelle "No Mercy" Mercier WPT Season 2 Ladies Night champion, Cecelia Mortensen tournament player and wife of 2001 WSOP champion Carlos Mortensen and Aidiliy Elviro fiancee of Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi to earn that WSOP bracelet and showed the poker world she was not a one time fluke on September 2005 by winning the 3rd World Poker Tour Ladies Invitational Tournament at the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles. Jennifer Tilly's WSOP success made her the first non-poker celebrity to win a World Series of Poker bracelet.

During an interview on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Jennifer Tilly said, “I was astonished too. As it started to approach the moment where I thought I might possibly be winning a new piece of jewelry, I was freaking out. And you know, I had almost all the chips, I had like 1,300 chips and the other girl had maybe, um, 57 chips. And I was like, I know because I'm on ESPN and the cameras are on me, there's going to be some way I'm going to lose my entire stack in one hand. But it didn't happen”.

Jennifer Tilly take advantages of an aggressive style that can be daunting. She manage to do well in tournament play. She’s an exceptionally intelligent celebrity gone sexy poker hottie who uses her smarts in a sagacious manner. She’s gone from being a celebrity poker player to a professional in a relatively short amount of time. And she’s gone from being a professional into retirement in an even shorter amount of time.

As Jennifer Tilly told Bluff Magazine in 2008, “I’m not giving up poker entirely — gambling is an addiction after all. I’m just going to treat it more like a hobby and less like a career."

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Brande Roderick: Poker Hottie And Business Women

The Literary Group out of NYC and Prince Marketing Group has successfully negotiated a book deal for Star of Celebrity Apprentice and former Playboy Playmate of the Year Brande Roderick is proving brains and beauty not only as being as one of the Playboy's playmate, an actress, a model but also the poker hottie this summer! And now, Brande Roderick is outwardly having a poker tournament. Spend game day of $100 poker tournament entry fee at Binion's.

Prior to her poker career, she was once spotted at Celebrity Apprentice, she was one of the Athena team with duchess of poker Annie Duke. Back then, Annie Duke, Joan Rivers, Jesse G. James and Brande Roderick were immediately called back into the boardroom the Celebrity Apprentice Season 1 winner piers Morgan interviewed them. Donald Trump fired Brande Roderick, leaving Annie Duke, Joan Rivers and Jesse G. James.

Here are some snippets of Brande Roderick's interview in Celebrity Apprentice:

So let's start with the basics: How'd you get involved in The Celebrity Apprentice?

Brande Roderick: I got involved with The Celebrity Apprentice because they had called my agent and apparently Donald Trump was a fan of mine, which was exciting, and he wanted me to be on the show so I went and met with the producers of the show. I told them all about my business skills and the businesses that I run and I got the job!

You and Annie didn't really get along in the beginning. Does that change?

Brande Roderick: You know, it's kind of funny because through everything that has happened on the show, and you guys will see a lot of ups and downs but we are like the closest out of everybody on the show.

Really?

Brande Roderick: Yeah, it's kind of funny because we were the ones that looked like we went at it the most. But, actually we ended up being very good friends.

If you've ever seen her poker tournaments, they're incredible. I'm a big fan.

Brande Roderick: I've played with her. She's amazing. Annie Duke has the whole package.

Do you think the rest of the players underestimated you initially?

Brande Roderick: Oh yeah. I think that whenever I go into a situation I think I always get underestimated. Which is always to my advantage. I use that in poker as well.

Poker hottie Brande Roderick has appeared on TV series and movies such as Jesse, Two Guys and a Girl, and Beverly Hills 90210, Starsky & Hutch, Dracula II, The Nanny Diaries, The Love Boat: The Next Wave, Life of a Gigolo as well as in numerous commercials including Dr. Pepper and Snickers.

Her fame came with the appearance in Baywatch Hawaii, she went to the cast for the role and was chosen from many other girls; soon she was chosen the Playboy Playmate of the Month in April 2000 and next year, in 2001, the Playboy Playmate of the Year. After her success on Baywatch, Brande took a bite out of reality in 2003 as one of the stars on The Surreal Life for the WB network.

What's up to her is that she recently became engaged to marry Glenn Cadrez, a former NFL linebacker who played for the New York Jets, Denver Broncos and Kansas City Chiefs. In 2005 she was ranked on the 96th place in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005" special supplement.

Brande Roderick is a true work horse who not only aims to keep growing both her acting career and her businesses, but also help those in need along the way. There is no stop in sight for her as she represents The Business Woman, and a scorching hot poker playmate.