/ Editor / 04 March 2008 / Leave a comment

RETURNING to our theme of celebrity poker players.

Vin Narayanan has the 10 celebrities he thinks would make good poker players.

All are top actors, easily masking their true emotions behind their professional face. When you sit at table with them, are you playing the person or the act?

His list runs:

10. Kevin Spacey
9. Demi Moore
8. Scarlett Johansson
7. Nicolas Cage

"I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion." Say the writer: "Now tell me, would you want to play against that in a poker game. I didn't think so."

Indeed, Cage should be left alone to shout at the pigeons in the shopping precinct.

6. Cameron Diaz
5. Denzel Washington
4. George Clooney
3. Natalie Portman
Harvard degree in psychology and a love for math
2. Sir Anthony Hopkins
1. Danica McKellar
McKellar, who starred as Winnie Cooper on The Wonder Years and later played a speech writer on The West Wing. McKellar has a degree in mathematics from UCLA.

It is all a flight of fancy.

You do not need to be good at maths to be good at poker.

You do not need to be physically attractive to be good at poker.

You do not need to look good in a bikini to be good at poker - and the Milky Bar Kid should put the two-piece swimsuit down and step away.

You do not need charm to be good at poker.

What you need to play poker well is patience, nerve and an understanding of odds.

You also need experience. Anyone can get lucky and win a game or even a tournament, but to work the odds and win over time, you need to know the game.

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