What do you get when you throw an NFL running back, a Country and Western singer, and few TV and movie stars together? A game, a poker game to be exact.



Las Vegas is in the news again as the stars descend on The Palms Hotel and Casino to play big stakes poker.



The "Whales," as well-heeled, high-stakes gamblers are called in Las Vegas seldom make headlines because they prefer to keep their dalliances with dice and cards private.



However, casinos like publicity and what's better than a bunch of hot stars playing games for charity?




That's what Jerome Bettis, Rosario Dawson, Mena Suvari, Wanda Sykes, Travis Tritt, and others are doing on the Cable TV channel, "bravo," on Thursday nights.




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