It's official: Jennifer Tilly has completed her metamorphosis from poker-playing actress to poker player, period. For the first time in 15 years, Jennifer Tilly was nowhere to be seen at the Academy Awards or at any of the post-show hoopla. Instead, Tilly was in Las Vegas at the NBC Heads-Up Poker Championship.

Although she busted out of the one-on-one poker tournament during the first round of competition, she stuck around to catch the action from the sidelines, even if that meant skipping out on Hollywood’s biggest night of the year, and essentially snubbing the Academy, of which she is a member. She was joined by boyfriend Phil Laak, who survived one round longer than his girl Friday before he too was defeated.

Although Tilly did receive an Oscar nomination in 1994 for her role in the Woody Allen film, “Bullets over Broadway," “Bride of Chucky" is somewhat more indicative of her overall film career. Accordingly, Tilly was quoted as saying that her prospects in the realm of poker trumped those in Hollywood circles.

Source:  Poker777 Staff

Monday, 06 March 2006