I don’t understand high stakes poker

I was in Vegas recently and my husband and I would laugh hysterically at the acts people were putting on on the poker rooms. If you need proof that life is pure artifice, that's the place to do it.

Amateurs.

Jennifer Tilly can just sit there unresponsive because she doesn't need the money on the table like the other players do.

She's just there for the thrill of the game since she's got a Scrooge McDuck-style room full of Simpsons cash at home.

R3 - Tilly is not even remotely close to the Chinese (and other) whales wandering around Las Vegas. An aquantenance of mine won $400k in a poker tournament, but gave it up when he and others became convinced that it is mostly fixed.

What happened in that round? Did Jen Tilly’s poker face trick Robl?

I've seen clips of Victoria Coren Mitchell playing poker and she goes the other direction to the annoyance of the other players. She's won the European tournament twice!

Americans don't know who she is, r6.

So maybe you could tell us who it is, r7

One of the players looks like a more hetero Matt Damon.

She's a British presenter and host of the toughest quiz show Only Connect-- she's opposite of what OP describes and she know it, to the annoyance of the other players. She's the first woman to win the European Poker Tour, and first person to win it twice.

TY R10

Jen in a tiara.

Chuckie in a sequinned onesie.

Looking like one of Uncle Jun’s girlfriends.

[quote] One of the players looks like a more hetero Matt Damon.

Isn’t Matt hetero with that rabbit-faced wife?