Ben Affleck
Celebrity Poker Player

Celebrity Poker Player Ben Affleck was born in Berkeley, California on August 15, 1972, but grew up up in the Cambridge, Massachusetts area.

Ben Affleck is married and has a daughter named Violet Anne Affleck, born on December 1, 2005.

After the movie Good Will Hunting, this poker celebity had starring roles in many successful movies, including Armageddon, Forces of Nature, Pearl Harbor, Changing Lanes, The Sum of All Fears and Daredevil, establishing himself as a Hollywood leading man throughout the early 2000s. However, some of his more recent films, including Gigli (2003) and Surviving Christmas (2004) have been critically panned and performed poorly at the box office.

Ben Affleck is an avid poker player, regularly entering local events. This Celebrity of poker has become very interested in the game, maybe due to the fact that his friend Matt Damon played one of the main roles in the poker movie " Rounders". He has been tutored by poker professionals Amir Vahedi and Annie Duke, and won the California State Poker Championship on June 20, 2004, taking home the first prize of $376,000 and beating a field of 90 players (including some top pros) in the process, which qualified him for the 2005 World Poker Tour final tournament.

At the final table of that tournament celebrity poker Ben Affleck beat poker pro Stan Goldstein, who finished second, and knocked out Chuck Pacheco, president and co-founder of Castle Rock Entertainment, who finished third. Amir Vahedi, his former teacher finished nineth. In a brief post-play speech, Affleck said he got lucky and was glad he proved that he was not a "complete donkey" at cards.

Ben Affleck is crazy about poker. He has a passion for the game that is fueled by the challenge of playing against the best. Capturing the California State Poker Championship meant a lot to him because he is constantly striving to be known as a poker player, not as a celebrity who plays poker.

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