Wow -- Jennifer Tilly has started a trend...

[Darren Dirt]

...the trend being, Hollywood hotties getting the poker bug -- and actually playing well enough to compete!

Look who placed 3rd in a pretty heavy competition headsup championship:
http://www.cardplayer.com/tournaments/results/7294 ("Nadia/Justice" placed above Humberto, T.J., Greenstein, Forrest, even Matusow and Phil Gordon!)

http://www.cardplayer.com/players/bio/Shannon_Elizabeth/53396
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This poker lady is best known for being a beautiful Hollywood actress. She is now trying to make a name for herself in the poker world. Elizabeth was born in Texas in 1973, and caught the poker bug after appearing on Bravo?s Celebrity Poker Showdown. She now plays in Hollywood games and Los Angeles casinos. She won Nicky Hilton?s New Year?s Eve Poker Tournament in 2005. Her newest project is using both her acting skills and poker knowledge while starring in the new poker movie Deal*.
"


Jennifer of course has been under the wing of Phil Laak, and has applied his wisdom and her instinct to much success:
http://www.cardplayer.com/players/results/Jennifer_Tilly/10980
"Last year she won the WSOP Ladies Tournament and followed that up with a first place win at the WPT Ladies Invitational, making her one of the few players to win both a bracelet and a WPT title in the same year."


Let's hope the trend continues, it'll make poker-on-TV an even more irresistible addiction.


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* with apparent cameos by at the very least: the Unabomber and the Magician. Unfortunately, Tara Reid is in it too.