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The interview by Steve Greenlee - Boston Oct 05, 2006
Pamela Anderson -- star of TV, movies, magazine spreads, and Google searches -- has gotten involved in a new sideline: online poker. Anderson -- whose father is a longtime poker player and whose new husband, Kid Rock, has been known to play a hand or two -- recently teamed with Texas Hold 'Em legend Doyle Brunson (right, with Anderson) to launch a poker website. She was a good sport when we chatted with her by phone.
STEVE GREENLEE
I had no idea you were such a poker fan. You play?
I grew up around it. People have asked me to do an online poker site forever. It's kind of one of the first things people even offered me, kind of back around Playboy time. I was like, ``Why would anyone wanna play poker online?"
You any good?
I have a real knowledge of the game, being around it my whole life, but I'm kind of a reluctant poker player. I hate to say that I'm really good at it. I can pull it off a little bit.
Does Jennifer Tilly ever play on your site?
She hasn't. I'll have to give her a call.
You realize, of course, that in Doyle Brunson's book ``Super System" he argued that women don't belong at the poker table.
I kind of agree. Well, I shouldn't say I agree. I love watching poker. I love being around my husband when he's playing poker. I like being at the table. I think poker is a very sexy sport, and I think it's kind of a guy's thing. But it's 2006, and more women are playing.
All right, quiz for Pamela. This is an easy one for someone who's such a big poker player. Which hand is commonly referred to as the Brunson"?
I have no idea.
Really? OK, it's 10-2.
I should have my dad on the phone. He watches Brunson do everything. . . . I have three favorite men, not including my husband. Hef [Hugh Hefner], Doyle Brunson, and [Atlantic Records cofounder] Ahmet Ertegun. They could ask me to do anything, and I would do it.
Is that right?
Well, maybe Hef , no.
Let me ask you another poker question.
Don't ask me poker questions.
No poker questions?
No.
I thought that's all I could ask you, was poker questions. Let me just ask you one last one.
No. Well, then, good luck. How do you get to 21 in Texas Hold 'Em? That's all I want to know.
Twenty-one in Texas Hold 'Em?
I'm kidding, I'm kidding.
You had me confused there. OK, just one more poker question. What do you do when you're heads up and you flop a big set?
Jeez, see, you're doing this to me on purpose.
No, I'm not.
I have no idea! All I know is two aces are good.
Why get involved in a gambling site? Isn't there a chance you could sully your image by lending it to an online casino?
Sully my image? I think that's impossible.
Come on.
You know, I've had such a huge Internet presence, good or bad, for whatever reason, and why not make a business out of it. I give a lot to charity. I do a lot of work with animal rights and environmental issues and things like that. At least you know when you're betting on my site it's not going to organized crime. It's going to a good cause. [Laughs.]
Why do you have revealing photos of you on your poker site? You know, they're not exactly hard to find on the Internet.
I did a photo shoot for my poker site with poker chips and fun props. It's always self-deprecating. It's always, always tongue in cheek. Part of poker, I think, is trying to have a sexy image. If there weren't pictures like that on there, then people wouldn't know it's my site.
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