Poker and celebrities.

There’s something totally brand new. Yeah, we’ve never heard that one before.

Still, despite the horrifically tired ‘celeb poker’ angle, I can’t help but get gushy over the recent Los Angeles Lakers 3rd Annual Casino Night and Celebrity Poker Invitational.

For starters, the LA Lakers gods and stars who came are enough to make you wet your pants. Magic Johnson. Kareem Abdul Jabbar. Kurt Rambis. Kobe Bryant. Lamar Odom, Smush Parker, Chris Mihm, Luke Walton, Sasha Vujacic, Devean George, Kwame Brown, Andrew Bynum, Brian Cook, Devin Green, Jim Jackson, Aaron McKie, Ronny Turiaf, Von Wafer. And not to forget, Phil Jackson, Jeanie Buss, Linda Rambis.

And then there’s Shannon Elizabeth and Jennifer Tilly. Hot damn, now you’re really wetting your pants. Also, there’s Marcia Cross, Lacey Chabert, Annie Duke, Bai Ling, Anne Heche, Jeremy Piven, Regina King, Ricki Lake, Dean Cain, Josh Duhamel, Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon, Rick and Kathy Hilton, Penny Marshall, Olivia Wilde, Brody Jenner, Phil Laak, Michele Merkin, David Anders, Jon Rose, Jon Kelley, Rue, et cetera.

Plus there was Paris Hilton, whom I fear just jinxed poker by recently proclaiming the game she’s newly addicted to…

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Ya’ll thought I forgot about this one eh?

No siree, not by a longshot. So as basketball fans salivate on this year’s March Madness wars, cool guys like us take a break and masturb… Er… ‘’Appreciate'’ (I use the term ever so slightly here..) those drop-dead gorgeous babes circling around the poker table.

These girls are so hot that it’s a shame they spend most of their time handling their cards instead of handling our you-know-what.

Oh yeah, and we’re down to our final four with three of those four you know by know as you read this very story.

So far, our list looks like this.

10. Courtney Friel

9. Evelyn Ng

8. Lily Elviro

7. Shana Hiatt

6. Amy Wynn Pastor

5. Jennifer Tilly

So without further ado, at No.4 in our OddJack hotness meter for poker is the red-hot Shannon Elizabeth.

Yep, I’m drooling while writing this piece.

Shannon Elizabeth is an actress who came to prominence upon her role in American Pie in 1999. She was born in…

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What are the odds?

Calvin Ayre, founder of Bodog, one of the big players in the world of gambling, can think of the most obscure of circumstances and place odds on it.

Heck, this guy would even lay odds on your shit, will it go down when you flush it or will it clog up the toilet?

The lad from Lloydminster, Sask., is Canada’s newest billionaire and cover boy at Forbes, the U.S.-based magazine that keeps the world’s scorecard on the rich.

The 44-year-old Ayre moved into one of the globe’s most exclusive clubs as founder of Bodog, the online gambling behemoth he operates out of Costa Rica because what he’s doing has never been licensed by a government in Canada.

A University of Waterloo grad who financed his education by selling Okanagan Valley apples, cherries and peaches on the Prairies, Ayre now makes a cool billion based on wagers on sports events such as the upcoming NCAA March Madness basketball tournament, NFL games and his online casino. - The Star

‘’Instead of…'’

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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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Yeah baby, Super Bowl XL is almost here!

The proverbial ‘NFL Final Four’ namely, the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Denver Broncos, the Carolina Panthers and the Seattle Seahawks will go at it in the Conference Finals to see who will advance to the biggest and grandest stage in all of football, the Super Bowl.

(Boo!)

Well, if this year’s edition of the Super Bowl is not your thing, (I know I am since the Oakland Raiders didn’t even made it to the playoffs and New England got unceremoniously booted out by Denver), then you can still look forward to…

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Cole Turner, awwww godammit I bit my tongue! I mean, Calvin Ayre…yes, that gorgeous hulk of a bookie… doesn’t he and Bodog just have a thing for celeb babies?

He and his Bodog oddsmaker gang are the trend-setter in celebrity baby propositions. And why not, after all a majority of people love talk about those soft, cuddly little creatures (not to be confused for a bunny), it doesn’t hurt that the parents are celebrities!

In the latest set of props they want you celebrity suckers to bet whether Marilyn Manson and his wife will have a baby in 2006 (only the dudes from Hell’s bowel would care)? Or will Donald Trump and Melania Knauss have a boy or a girl (really, we don’t care!)?

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Nanny-humping cad Jude Law and his broken hearted former fiancee Sienna Miller are reportedly back together again and Bodog has a new line(again) on whether or not the troubled couple will finally get married. Right now, the line shows an engagement for Jude and Sienna by July 2006 at -110(Pay $110 to win $100), while a NO bet is more likely at a price of -130(Pay $130 to win $100). We’re not convinced that this union is as rock solid as some tabloids have reported. We’re almost positive, however, that any domestic help the couple decides to hire will undoubtedly go through strict aesthetic scrutiny. So, all butt-ugly gardners, maids, and nannies should start polishing up their resumes if they want a sweet gig working for the reunited Laws in 2006.

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In what appears to be one of the shlockiest PR moves in online gambling history, Bodog’s omnipresent CEO Calvin Ayre has once again decided to shamelessly allign himself with a cause that seems…mmm…how you say, disenguous? In a recent press release Ayre proclaims that he’s vowed to stand side-by-side with Philadelphia 76ers thug-happy guard Allen Iverson in protest of the NBA’s new dress code. Ayre offered to not only pay any fines Iverson receives throughout his protest–but also offered to match them and donate to Iverson’s charity organization, the Crossover Foundation, which helps underpriviledged children in the inner cities.

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Promotion-crazy sportsbook Bodog has two more Howard Stern-laden prop bets available today, pretty much leading us to believe that on Stern’s new Sirius brodacast there will be Bodog tie-ins galore.( We’re thinking Bodog CEO Calvin Ayre will probably become the new Dr. Sal Calabro?) The two new bets offered are "Will WXRK GM Tom Chiusano follow Howard Stern to Sirius?" and "Who Will Appear on Howard Stern’s First Show/Roast on Sirius?" The favorites to appear on Stern’s first show include estranged former sidekick Jackie "The Jokeman" Martling at 2/1; former house idiot "Stuttering" John Melendez at 2/1; and limerick-loving meathead comedian Andrew Dice Clay is also at 2/1. Other possible guests include Stern’s former WNBC program manager(and notorious Stern hater) Kevin "Pig Virus" Metheny at 3/1; Mel Gibson at 10/1; and rival DJs Opie and Anthony at 50/1.

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With the recent announcement that former Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth will replace Howard Stern in the mornings on most of his east coast markets, Bodog is guessing that this may cause a notoriously cranky Stern to bolt on his Infinty radio contract early. Right now, Stern’s signed through December of 2005, but the odds are paying +200 if Stern bolts before his contract is up. If he stays through December, it’s a -300 pay out. Whee. Granted, these odds were generously yanked from Bodog’s billion dollar ass and shouldn’t be taken as anything more.

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