Trishelle Cannatella to Co-Host V Foundation Charity Poker Tournament
Reality television star and Absolute Poker celebrity endorser, Trishelle Cannatella, has been tabbed as the co-host of V Foundation Charity Poker Tournament which begins today at the Grand Sierra Resort Casino in Reno, Nevada. The $200 + $30 re-buy tournament will benefit the V Foundation for Cancer Research, created in 1993 by the late NC State basketball coach, Jim Valvano.
Joining Cannatella at the event will be the other two members of Team AP, Matt Vengrin and Lacey Jones, as well as poker pros from Absolute Poker’s sister site, UB.com, including Brandon Cantu, Adam “Roothlus”Levy, Michael Binger, Matt “mattg1983″ Graham, Tiffany Michelle, and Liv Boeree. Other celebrities and poker players scheduled to play are former UB.com spokesman and current Victory Poker pitch man, Antonio Esfandiari, Jeff Madsen, Alec “traheho” Torelli, Alex Outhred, Erica Schoenberg, 2007 Playboy Playmate of the Year Sara Underwood, “ER” star Mekhi Phifer, and former baseball slugger Jose Canseco.
The tournament will be a two-day event, but the festivities are not limited to poker. Also included in the fund raising efforts will be a silent auction, a private dinner, and a “Take It Downhill” Poker Pro Ski Challenge.
Some of the aforementioned poker pros will be participating in the Ski Challenge, along with Canseco, Phil “The Unabomber” Laak, Maria Ho, Bay 101 Shooting Star champ Mclean Karr, Ali Prescott, and UB.com’s Joe Sebok.
Trishelle Cannatella first made a name for herself as cast member on the hit MTV show, “The Real World,” appearing in its 12th season, when it was filmed in Las Vegas. She has appeared in numerous other reality shows, the most notable being VH1’s “The Surreal Life,” where she joined Vanilla Ice, Ron Jeremy, Traci Bingham, Erik Estrada, and Tammy Faye Messner. Cannatella has also posed for Playboy magazine.
While nobody would argue that Trishelle Cannatella isn’t a member of Team AP because of her looks and celebrity, she has actually had some success at the poker tables, as well. Interestingly, her best performances have been in charity events. In February she placed 3rd in the World Poker Tour’s Celebrity Invitational, winning $20,000, and took down the title at the Trash Talk Championship of the World, which benefited the Sharon Osbourne Colon Cancer Program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. She donated a significant portion of her prize from the Trash Talk Championship to the charity.
The event will be filmed for television and will eventually be shown in a half-hour time slot on ESPN2.
The V Foundation for Cancer Research has raised over $90 million in its 17 years and has awarded research grants in 38 states and Washington, D.C. Out of the 109 V Scholars who received grants between 1994 and 2003, 93 percent have received additional funding. 100 percent of all direct cash donations and all net proceeds from charity events go towards cancer research. The V Foundation is one of an elite 2 percent of charities that has earned a four-star rating from Charity Navigator.
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Useful poker information:
- LIVE [CARD] - In Stud, a card probably not held by other players.
- ON THE COME - A situation where the player does not have a complete hand but hopes to make one if the right cards come up.
- IMPLIED ODDS - A refinement to POT ODDS which includes money not yet in the pot. Considers the potential extra bets and winnings made when a player forms a very good hand.
- RACE - In tournaments it is sometimes convenient to remove all lower-denomination chips from play, as the remaining players' stacks tend to grow. Small chips are converted to larger chips and any odd chips are "raced off" in the following way: each player with odd chips places them in front of his stack and is dealt one card for each chip. Highest card (rank and suit) takes all the small chips and converts them to higher-denomination chips.
- LATE BLIND - In addition to "regular" blinds, some games allow a player (particularly a new one) to post a blind bet in return for the right to enter the game immediately and act last on the first betting round. The amount of the blind is determined by house rules, usually somewhere between the last blind and double the last blind. It is frequently a LIVE BLIND.
- REPRESENT - Implying, by one's betting style, that one has a particular hand.
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