The Playboy Mansion
GOOD TIMES! Saturday night a ton of us hopped on a shuttle at 5:15pm to head up to the Celebrity Poker tournament at the Playboy mansion. Mikey and I talked about how stupid poker is, and the bus was full of excitement as we pulled into a parking lot for an abandoned Robinsons May off of Santa Monica Blvd.Huh? "Hey! We just took a shuttle to the shuttle!" I said. Everybody laughed. Then we got pretty annoyed as we saw the huge line that we were supposed to stand in.
Poker players don't stand in line. After some great speeching by Lara we were registered and on our way within 20 minutes and we finally arrived at the Playboy Mansion.
The place is incredible.
We did some red carpet stuff, some interviews, and we were off to the bar.
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Jon Friedberg and I in the Grotto
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Touring the grounds
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Mikey feeding Spider Monkeys
The grounds were incredible! There were over 300 species of animals on the grounds. I got a call during the evening asking where I was. I then returned the question and she said, "Jon and I are following a peacock around the lawn." Nice. Quote of the day. We could not go into the mansion as Hugh lives on the property and was hope. That's pretty sweet that he lets people throw awesome parties at his awesome residence. Eventually everybody made their way under the tent and the poker tournament got underway.
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The fabulous Shannon Elizabeth, who took second in this event
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Steve Dannenman, who took first in the event
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Marcel Luske, always the gentleman
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Jennifer Tilley and my friend Greg
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Don Cheadle. It'll be nice working with proper villians again.
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Devilfish
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David Singer
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Mark Newhouse
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Jennifer "Jennicide" Leigh
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"Neverwin"
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That blue thing was sticking out from between my legs
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Annie Duke and Steve
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Thomas Walhroos and Joy Miller
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After the fiasco of getting there I was nothing but impressed. They sure know how to throw a party there! From there we took a shuttle back the shuttle, got sick of waiting for a shuttle, took a cab, and we closed down the hotel bar. Awesome night!
Sunday morning Lara and I woke up in time to head to Bel Air Presbyterian Church where I worked for two years during college. It was a great experience seeing some old friends and some of the kids that I used to work with, and they're not kids anymore! Most of them are finishing their first year of college! So neat seeing the bonds that we formed so many years ago still running deep. I really miss working with kids, and I am going to make an effort to volunteer with a youth ministry somewhere around here in the near future.
Tomorrow is the $5k main event at Caesars, and I'm looking forward to a good run!
Peace and good luck,
Devo
posted by Devo @ 2:35 AM
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