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Sexy Babes in the World of Poker
Posted on 23. Jun, 2009 by admin.
Shana Hiatt’s modeling career bloomed when she won Miss Hawaiian Tropic in 2005 and she represented Beach Haven, New Jersey. She was the girl in the Playboy mag in April 1995 ‘The Girls of Hawaiian Tropic’ issue.
Shana constantly traveled around the world with her brother and parents. She was an athlete during her high school years and began to model at the age of 18. She was born on the East Coast from where they moved to different countries.
She is the hostess of The World Poker Tour and takes charge of providing information about professional poker players in the world. She was also the host of ‘Poker After Dark’ but was replaced by Marianera Pereyra. She also used to host National Heads-Up Poker Championship, which is now hosted by Leean Tweeden.
Ming-Na, or Ming-Na Wen in real life, is a Chinese-American national. She was born on November 20, 1963 in Coloane Island, Macau. She finished the bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts in Drama at the Carnegie Mellon University.
She was married to Eric Michael Zee with whom she bore two children. She and her own family currently live in Calabasas, California.
She is popular for voicing for Fa Mulan in the film Mulan, for Aki Ross in the Final Fantasy, and for Ellen Ying in the Batmam animated series.
She competed in a Hollywood Home Game on the World Poker Tour, which she won. Ming-Na is one of the top sexiest celebrity poker players today.
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Expect DiCaprio in the New Online Poker Movie
Posted on 29. Apr, 2009 by admin.
Do you still remember the monumental performance of Matt Damon and Edward Norton in the movie “Rounders”? The writers behind this highly revered poker movie are again making another film starring the popular actor Leonardo DiCaprio.
The yet-untitled movie is about the online casinos based in Costa Rica. David Levien and Brian Koppelman, both involved in the success of the Rounders movie, wrote the story used within the film. The film was reported to have mainly gathered the interest of blockbuster movie producers Paramount, and has been rising to fame as another great movie to expect on the theaters.
DiCaprio has already signed the contract to get the lead role of the poker movie project. The unstoppable success of the international film icon would bring excellent progress to the movie’s schedule. The film is said to be advancing from the pre-production stage to the actual production at a rapid rate.
The writers behind this upcoming poker movie are also responsible for some notable films such as Steven Soderbergh’s The Girlfriend Experiences as well as the successful Las Vegas movie Ocean’s Thirteen. The gunfire and heist scenes expected to be present all throughout the movie will definitely delight poker enthusiasts. This would definitely be another great success in the poker-based films hitting the movie theaters.
However, the release date of this upcoming poker movie was still unannounced by the filmmakers. DiCaprio will make another movie appearance in Shutter Island, a film by popular director Martin Scorsese.