New Celebrities Playing Poker on Celebrity Poker Online

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I had added about 15 new poker playing celebrity bios to Celebrity Poker Online.

They include Al Alvarez, Tom Parker Bowles, Alan Brazil, Tony Cascarino, Steve Davis, Matt Etherington, Ed Giddins, Stephen Hendry, Paul Ince, Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Nick Leeson, John McCririck, Teddy Sheringham, Clive Sinclair, Matthew Stevens, Jimmy White, and Mark Williams.



Al Alvarez was born in London 1929 and educated at Oundle School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Alvarez was a poetry critic and editor for The Observer and later became a poet and novelist. Recently, Alvarez wrote Poker: Bets, Bluffs and Bad Beats (2000), and his autobiography Where did it all go right?.



Tom Parker Bowles is well known because his mother is Camilla Parker Bowles and his future step-father is Prince Charles. Tom Parker Bowles is a talented poker player. He got into the final of the Celebrity Poker Club Series 2, in Cardiff in July 2004.



Alan Brazil co-presents the Talksport Radio's breakfast show with Graham Beecroft. Alan Brazil is a retired professional football (soccer) player who won 13 caps for Scotland and played an important role in an attractive and successful Ipswich side.



Tony Cascarino played european football for Gillingham, Millwall, Aston Villa, Celtic, Chelsea, Marseille and Nancy. Tony Cascarino co-presented with Patrick Kinghorn the early evening Talksport Radio show known as "The King and Cas".



Steve Davis began playing snooker at the age of 12 and became a snooker professional in 1978 and just three years later he was ranked Number 1. Davis has written a book on chess, and has been seen playing poker on television along with the likes of Stephen Hendry and Mark Williams.



Matt Etherington plays football (soccer) as a midfielder for West Ham United. Matt Etherington has also had great success in poker. On December 1, 2004 Etherington picked up a cheque for £17,000 for taking first prize at a Poker Classic Tournament.



Ed Giddins was born in Eastbourne, Sussex in the United Kingdom. Ed Giddins played cricket for Hampshire, Sussex, Warwickshire, Surrey; as well as for England.



Stephen Hendry started playing snooker at 12, and was the youngest ever winner of a professional title - The Rothman's Grand Prix in 1987. Seven-time world champion Stephen Hendry was recently named the greatest snooker player of all time.



Paul Ince was an authoritative midfield marshal and became known as "The Governor". In his extensive career Paul Ince played for West Ham, Manchester United, Inter Milan, Liverpool, Middlesbrough and latterly Wolverhampton Wanderers. After England's disappointing performance in Euro 2000, he called it a day for his international career and has taken up poker.



Yevgeny Kafelnikov became a professional tennis player in 1992 and amassed $23,883,797 of prize money. His proudest achievement in tennis is that he won 26 singles titles. Kafelnikov has hired fellow Russian, Kirill Gerasimov, professional poker's Rookie of the Year in 2002, to coach him. In October 2004 Kafelnikov won the Korona Russian Poker Championships in Moscow.



Nick Leeson is a British investments trader whose actions caused the collapse of Baring's Bank, the United Kingdom's oldest investment banking firm. Leeson was appointed Commercial Manager of Galway United Football Club in April 2005 and enjoys playing poker.



John McCririck is a television horse racing pundit from the United Kingdom who supports the Newcastle United football (soccer) club. John McCririck is a keen poker player, and if his television performances are anything to go by, he has an insatiable appetite for bluffing.



Teddy Sheringham is well known for playing football in England. Teddy Sheringhamis one of the classiest and cleverest English attackers of modern times.



Clive Sinclair is a British entrepreneur and inventor of the world's first pocket calculator in 1962. Sir Clive Sinclair was knighted in 1983 and is a keen poker player and has appeared on the Late Night Poker TV series.



Matthew Stevens has become a professional snooker player that has consistently been in the top 10 snooker players for over five years. Like a lot of his fellow professional snooker players Stevens has been seen on television turning his hand to poker, and has won a major poker tournament.



Jimmy White is certainly the most popular snooker player on the circuit. White became the youngest ever world amateur champion. Jimmy White may have lost a lot of money gambling but he was a shock winner of the second Poker Million, and is ranked 70th best English poker player.



Mark Williams turned to a snooker professional in 1992 and in the last six years he has never been out of the first three in the world snooker rankings.