Ed Asner’s Poker Night: Play Cards with Your Favorite Celebs
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The ninth annual Ed Asner and Friends Celebrity Poker Night, an event raising money to benefit children with special needs, takes place at 5 pm PT on Saturday, June 12 on the new, charitably oriented Poker 501 online platform.
Ed Asner is passionate about poker and charity. (Image: YouTube)
Poker players who sign up will have the opportunity to play cards with celebrities including actor and WSOP regular Lou Diamond Phillips, actress Anna Paquin, singer Aimee Mann, and others, all while helping to raise money for a worthwhile cause close to Asner’s heart; he has a son and grandchildren who themselves are on the Autism spectrum, and he’s a longtime advocate for the developmentally disabled.
SHE visited Bournemouth at the high-point of her career – but where’s Macy Gray been since? The truth is that Macy, born Natalie Renée McIntyre, never actually left the limelight. In fact, she’s always kept very busy. Macy raised the roof of the Bournemouth International Centre on March 27, 2000 – just months after releasing her incredibly popular single
I Try.
On How Life Is, went on to sell more than 10 million copies worldwide. Macy released another nine albums in the years since, although none of the songs grabbed the publics attention in the same way
I Try did.
Celebrity Poker Showdown on Bravo, but was the first to leave
Daryl Hannah, Danny Bonaduce,
Natasha Henstridge,
Rosie O’Donnell, and numerous others. Players can expect plenty of interaction via the poker platform.
“We’re very excited about this year’s Poker Night, because the virtual platform is brand new and really amazing,” says Matt Asner, Ed’s son and co-founder of the center. “It’s cutting edge and allows our players to see and talk to one another in real time at their tables.
“This virtual poker night will be truly groundbreaking and the closest you’ll get to in-person, live table action. It’s light years ahead of the video game vibe we had last year. I can’t wait to see who has the best poker face.”
Survivor villain Jonny Fairplay is arrested on larceny charges with his MOM after stealing furniture and a $5,000 necklace from his grandma
Jonny Fairplay, 46, and his mother, Patsy Hall, 68, charged with grand larceny targeting his grandmother, Jean Hauser Cooke
Fairplay s aunt claimed Hall mentally abused Cooke, who has dementia, while Fairplay removed furniture and a silver necklace from her home
Cooke, 86, is the same grandmother Fairplay falsely claimed had died in 2003 while he competed on Survivor: Pearl Island
Fairplay became one of the most hated reality TV personalities after lying about his grandmother s death to garner sympathy
Fairplay denied wrongdoing, saying he and his mother have been unjustly charged