Does this mean George Clooney is gonna win?

Year after year, half the Hollywood A-listers who walk the red carpet to Oscar night tell the press: “Forget the Oscar. I came for the gift bag!”

As if a cutesy little meet-the-press quip can really downplay the Oscar de la Rentas and Valentinos they obviously fussed over.

What’s in the damn bag, anyway? This year, celebrities’ ongoing romance with poker is in there, that’s what.

Bodog.com ’s premium poker chip set will be a featured item in luxury gift bags to be given away to guests in an Oscar pre-party.

The Oscar gift bags are by Jewels and Pinstripes, which we know by now are…

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Nicky Hilton outgrowing her celeb brat status?

Stop the politically correct world, we want to get off!

Nicky Hilton just unveiled her latest clothing line in Las Vegas, at Light nighclub in the Bellagio casino hotel. All we got out of it was brat guilt – she sounded too apologetic for being too rich.

First, she notes her new upscale designs are “clothes my friends and I could wear” (read: my posse is as normal as yours).

But that the clothes cost far less than what she and friends can afford to splurge on (read: um, maybe not as normal, but hey, we feel for poverty).

“This ain’t Prada,” says Nicky, now 22 and probably figuring she needs to be a little mature.

Then she points out, “I don’t want to be one of those celebrities that slaps their name on a label and collects…

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Clorox is supposed to fight germs. Or Lysol.

But germ-fighting Brazilians? WTF, we love these people for liking to fuck with wreckless abandon.

Damn the AIDS epidemic for pooping on every libidinous Latina/o’s party. Now it seems the Brazilians – the last people we’d expect to get too safe – just got too safe.

A mouth spray designed to fight germs was recently launched in time for Carnival in Sao Paolo and Salvador, two Brazilian cities notorious for French kissing among strangers (and perilous sex, of course) in the midst of deliciously pagan street merriment.

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Atlanta socialite Lita McClinton Sullivan actually lived a TV movie.

We mean the kind that might have been called ‘True Crimes’ or a Danielle-Steele-sounding title.

As it happens, her story took place in the ’80s, when real-life crime TV movies were big. In this story, the wealthy husband she divorces hires a hit man to blip her off.

Yeah, genius, kind of like Jerry Bruckheimer’s Cold Case, only real.

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Casino hopeful Britons are finally getting a proper English education.

Britain’s first casino college opened at Blackpool and The Fylde College in the UK on February 22nd.

The Gaming Academy, a casino training school, is teaching anyone over age 18 the correct way to work a roulette wheel, deal blackjack cards, or repair slot machines – Las Vegas style.

Casino gambling in Britain UK gets an education

One thing poker and greyhound racing have in common: underdogs go home unloved and empty handed.

It is not the most unlikely marriage between two disparate sports. Picture chasing after the elusive Royal Flush in between watching greyhounds chasing after artificial bunnies – it’s odd and true.

Greyhound racing, a.k.a. dog racing, is as old as the 1900s. It is certainly younger than horse racing, which has been around since the Ancient Romans’ chariot races; and appeals to a relatively narrower audience.

But this is an age born to mouthful concepts like market expansion. And so, too, the dogs must…

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