Monday, August 07, 2006

The stars of a sexy new poker movie sponsored by Aces.com partied with poker
stars Howard Lederer, Phil Gordon, Lisa Mueller and others last weekend at
Lederer's private WSOP bash. The highlight of the evening was, without a
doubt, the karaoke contest that Gordon was particularly determined to win.
When Gordon began to peel off his clothing in his effort to win over the
judges, Christina Morris, who plays the mischievous "Elle" in ACES the
Movie, couldn't resist. "I've never seen anyone want to win a karaoke
contest that bad," laughed Morris. "When he started wiggling his butt at the
crowd I just had to run up and stuff a dollar bill in his underwear
waistband!" Morris was joined at the event by co-star Sheena Chou and Rene
Quesada, the Aces.com Manager who invited them to come to Las Vegas, home of
Aces.com, for the opening weekend festivities of the WSOP Championship
Tournament. "Sheena and Christina haven't been back to Vegas since they were
shooting the movie here last year," said Quesada. "After the Lederer party,
we ended up at the Venetian where Christina just wanted to dance at Tao
night club and Sheena headed straight for the poker tables." The rest of the
weekend was a series of special appearances, interviews and photo sessions.

"I've been playing poker since I was a kid," said Sheena Chou who plays the
spoiled Chinese school girl in ACES the Movie, "And I've been playing online
poker a lot at Aces.com since we started hosting Wednesday night Free Roll
tournaments there. This is my first WSOP though and all I can say is WOW! So
many cute poker players, so little time!" While in Las Vegas, Sheena and
Christina recounted their WSOP adventures on their blog:
AcesMovie.blogspot.com where they've also posted party photos and numerous
snapshots from the WSOP itself.

New Aces.com players as well as tournament and contest winners will receive
copies of the ACES the Movie DVD. Contest and tournament details are
available at Ace.com/movie. A Texas Hold'em Tutorial featuring ACES star
Lacey Toups -- produced as an extra feature on the DVD -- is also now
available online at Aces.com.