Peter Parker in a poker pickle

This next item is about as dizzying as the plot of Spider-Man 3. (Wait, who is Venom again?) Former Peter Parker Tobey Maguire is being sued for $300,000 in poker winnings.


Turns out the high-stakes card game –- held in the Hollywood Hills and also featuring such playas as Ben Affleck and Leonardo DiCaprio –- was unlicensed and also included a bad dude named Brad Ruderman, who is currently in prison for running a Ponzi scheme.

The people screwed over by Ruderman are now suing Maguire, saying he essentially has their money. Got that?
If so, here’s one more detail to this whole filthy business. The card game went down in the home of Rick Salomon, star, producer and major scumbag behind the Paris Hilton sex tape.

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A Legendary Poker Player

Amarillo Slim (aka Thomas Austin Preston Jr.), a professional gambler that was born in Arkansas, and is known as an icon in the poker world.

He was a four time World Series of Poker (WSOP) winner, was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 1992. 

Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People, Preston's autobiography was released in 2003. In the book Preston shares stories of his play with guys like Larry Flint (Penthouse Magazine), Former Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon.

Slim is also commonly agreed to be the greatest proposition gambler to have ever lived. His most famous saying, quoted by Matt Damon's Mike McDermott in Rounders is good advice for sharks the entire world over: "You can shear a sheep many times, but skin him only once.’’

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Online Casino Gambling

There is a large number of online casinos, in which people can play casino games such as roulette, blackjack, pachinko, baccarat and many others. These games are played against the "house", which makes money due to the fact that the odds are in its favor.

Poker today is one of the fastest growing and one of the most popular casino games. Poker will always be around and will be played all over the world. Poker has grown its own way and it will definitely keep growing, the next generation will play this game with some or no variations, but it will never be purged out from the page of history.

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