A Black Day in New Orleans

Date: 2006.06.12 | Category: Hand Of The Week | By: Phil Hellmuth   

Here are a few hands from the second heat of the June 7 “Celebrity Poker Showdown” on Bravo (which I co-host along with comedian Dave Foley). Shot in New Orleans, all of our celebrities donated their prize money ($1 million total) to charities dedicated to the New Orleans area. Show No. 1, which I wrote about last week, showed me that many of the celebrities have learned how to play a solid game of no-limit Hold ’em. Jason Alexander (“Seinfeld”) beat out Bryan Cranston (“Malcolm in the Middle”) for the first heat win. (Foley, famous for never picking a winner, actually picked the winner, Alexander! I had picked Cranston.)

Our five celebrity guests on show No. 2 were Greg Behrendt (“He’s Just Not That into You”), Andrea Martin (in soon to be released movies “Young Triffie’s Been Made Away with” and “Black Christmas”), Kim Coles (“Living Single’), Jorge Garcia (“Lost”) and Michael Ian Black (director of the upcoming movie “The Pleasure of your Company”). We both picked Black, but Foley made me pick someone else, so I chose Coles.