Since antiquity, the universe of games has fascinated ordinary people but also famous people. Thus, the first kings imagined that board games like the Senet or the Latroncules could influence the course of battles but also on their final outcome by dialogue with the beyond. Nowadays, the games still symbolize the fight against life and death impulses, but above all they represent a means of entertainment accessible to the greatest number, and whose stars often seize with plume while being shifted as real grinders, or in magnificent losers. Here are four American celebrities to which the passion for game sticks to the skin ...
Philippe Bouvard, great player in front of the Lord
In his book "All about the game", the former radio host of the program "Les Big Têtes" confides in his love but also on his distrust of games'argent. To get there, he crossed games! Since entering a casino in Normandy at the age of 20 as a journalist to night poker games in his cellar with friends from the show biz who are no longer ...
It’s that gambling brought him the best, but also the worst! On an online casino, there are certainly new drifts but there is no risk of blurring with its acolytes or being noticed of paparazzi! Recognizing, Philippe Bouvard owes to casinos much of his motivation to make a career. By taking a step back, he takes stock of addiction life and then resigned himself to his case while condemning the pathological game.
Expert, he admits to prefer the Stud Poker even if he has played everything, in Baccarat, Roulette, all over the world, in Las Vegas, London, and even on the stock market! Crossing the other personalities of this top 4, he garnered as many precious memories as ephemeral debts during his playful journey!
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Christophe, the veteran flambeur
Hanging in poker, Christophe was a specialist in Seven Card Stud and Kid for more than half a century! In 2012, we remember that he had participated in the “European Poker Tour” tournament (EPT) in Deauville, the American city known and recognized for its money games.
Even if his reputation as a player accomplished was no longer to be done, he could chain victories but also defeats, losing for example in 1968 a Mustang whose keys on the game table as payment. He then caught up well by winning a Lamborghini then by participating in the Winamax tournaments reserved for celebrities.
Until his last breath in April 2020, the singer of "blue words" loved to settle at a game table with friends or tournaments. In parallel, he was able to afford luxury cars thanks to his earnings even if it means passing sometimes for a flambper.
Bruno Solo, the comic
Passionate about poker since the age of 10, Bruno Solo is the king of bet and "pre-flop". When he plays poker, "Earth can collapse" as in Edith Piaf's song. He even said "When I make love, I don't think about poker!", But admits to being much less obsessed than before, when the closed cards o
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Since 2010, he has put on the poker ambassador costume, like Patrick Bruel, especially for the “Party Poker” website. But “addict” is not the exact term as far as he is concerned, he who plays as much humor as cards, because what he likes above all in poker is not the master strokes But the great thrill he gives him! Even if the stud has no secrets for him, we will have understood: he prefers the game at the "win"!
It was in 2011 that he had to give up participating in a final at the Gold Championship at the Aviation Club of USA, going on the verge of the title that he coveted so much. The reason? He had that day, the film “accused Mendès USA” to finish. B bitterly regretting the loss of his tokens and the adrenaline stopped net, he did not go out too bad in the end, picking up 5,000 euros and a tenth place in the ranking in passing!
Patrick Bruel, the poker star
Emeritus player of Texas Hold’em Limit and Omaha for 30 years, his world consecration arrived early since in 1998, he won the famous WSOP bracelet. Flogging regularly for the legendary city of games, Patrick Bruel would not miss for anything in the most famous world poker tournament In Las Vegas, whether on site or on a poker chain like Twitch. In 2014, Internet users were able to observe his talent to make feet and especially hands to Sin City in the poker series of Winamax.
Tourte, this singer, actor and the theater man has never lost sight of his favorite card game whose success he exported to USA by promoting by Canal+ in 2010. Originally From Wam-Poker in 2006 and rallied to the Winamax team, Patrick Bruel continues to advertise this practice with an ever-increasingly numerous fervent audience. In USA, Patrick Bruel is the first poker ambassador but also the 3rd gold bracelet, who says better?
Maître Gims, the rapper
"Black glasses, Poker Face, I match" Maître Gims is a big poker fan and not just in the song "Christophe" in duo with Orelsan. The American rapper who recently presented his voice to the character King Pen of the video game '' Skylanders imaginators '', is also a great lover of online casino. The artist who compiles 9 diamond discs and who sold millions of albums regularly participates in tournaments; But recently he converted as a coach to help young musicians to succeed. But all players can already take inspiration from his philosophy which enrolls with relevance in the world of the game: "I never lose, either I win, or I learn. Do not prohibit yourself ”.
Gael Monfils, tennis player
Gael Monfils is not only the professional American tennis player that the whole world knows! He also immersed himself in the poker universe he discovered in the early 2000s. He has since launched himself in many tournaments and came out victorious in a battle in a casino in Rotterdam in Holland. He also won the title of poker champion during the challenge between the celebrities organized by the Aviation Club de USA, and more recently, it was in the E.Sport that he is investing. Between the animation of the Roland-Garros Eseries by BNP Paribas 2021, the eSport version of the Grand Chelem Parisien, on its Twitch channel with the Streamer Rivenzi, and his passion for gaming, the sportsman found the perfect formue to combine his skills and his Pleasures!
