Sam's Game is a celebrity poker

Poker

Poker is a family of card games that share betting rules and usually hand rankings. Poker games differ in how the cards are dealt, how hands may be formed, whether the high or low hand wins the pot in a showdown , limits on bet sizes, and how many rounds of betting are allowed.In most modern poker...

 program currently airing on Playboy TV

Playboy TV

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. It features a lineup of comedians

Comedians

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, Playmates

Playmates

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, and professional Texas Hold 'Em

Texas hold 'em

Texas Hold 'em is a variation of the standard card game of poker. The game consists of two cards being dealt face down to each player and then five community cards being placed face-up by the dealer—a series of three then two additional single cards , with...

 players and is hosted by Simpsons'

The Simpsons

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co-creator, Sam Simon

Sam Simon

Samuel "Sam" Simon is an American director, producer, writer, boxing manager and philanthropist. While at Stanford University, Simon worked as a newspaper cartoonist and after graduating became a storyboard artist at Filmation Studios. He submitted a spec script for the sitcom Taxi, which was...

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Format

Shot at Hugh Hefner's

Hugh Hefner

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 private sky villa at the Palms Resort, the show features celebrities playing traditional Texas Hold 'Em with their own actual money, as opposed to charity contributions.

Women in Playboy bunny

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 costumes serve as the card dealers and cocktail waitresses. A variety of comedians, actresses, professional card players, and ex-Playmates make up the rotating table of players, with Sam Simon being the only constant.

Featured players

• Norm Macdonald
  Norm MacDonald
  Norman Gene "Norm" Macdonald is a Canadian stand-up comedian, writer and actor. He is best known for his five seasons as a cast member on Saturday Night Live, which included anchoring Weekend Update for three years...
  
  
• Artie Lange
  Artie Lange
  Arthur Steven "Artie" Lange, Jr. is an American actor, comedian and radio personality best known for his tenures with the The Howard Stern Show and the comedy sketch series MADtv....
  
  
• Brande Roderick
  Brande Roderick
  Brande Nicole Roderick is an American model and actress known for her appearances in Baywatch and Playboy.-Personal life:...
  
  
• Dave Attell
  Dave Attell
  Dave Attell is an American stand-up comedian and the host of Comedy Central's Insomniac with Dave Attell and The Gong Show with Dave Attell.-Stand-up beginning:...
  
  
• Jennifer Tilly
  Jennifer Tilly
  Jennifer Tilly is an American actress and poker player. She is an Academy Award nominee, and a World Series of Poker Ladies' Event bracelet winner. She is the older sister of actress Meg Tilly.-Early life:...
  
  
• Jeff Ross
• Deanna Brooks
  Deanna Brooks
  Deanna Brooks is an American glamour model and actress who was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month in May, 1998...
  
  
• Andrea Lowell
  Andrea Lowell
  Andrea Lowell is an American actress and model most recognizable from her Playboy magazine nude pictorials and on air work for a variety of Playboy TV programs....
  
  
• Phil Laak
  Phil Laak
  Philip "Phil" C. Laak is a professional poker player, now residing in Los Angeles, California. Laak holds a World Poker Tour title, a World Series of Poker bracelet and has appeared on numerous nationally-aired television shows.-Early life:...
  
  
• Jay Kogen
  Jay Kogen
  -Early life:Jay Steven Kogen was born on May 3rd, 1963 in Brooklyn, New York. He is the son of Mad writer Arnie Kogen, and Sue Kogen . His paternal grandparents, Samuel Kogen and Pauline Gorin, were Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire , while his maternal grandparents, Harold Hirsch and Ida...