Poker News and Great Bimbo Card Sharks or Whatever Gay Tony Calls Hot Chicks

:: More proof that online poker is all the rage with Krauts, PokerStars.com has added the "Baron Von Slam" of tennis Boris Becker to its team of sponsored players. [UK.PokerNews.com] :: Czech stunner Olga Kurylenko has been the number one search on Wicked Chops Poker the past week thanks to her role as a Russian president's mistress in the movie Hitman and because she's ridiculously hot. [Olga Kurylenko - Parting Shot] :: Vietnam's Dinh "Daren" Le won the Asian Pacific Poker Tour Macau, becoming the first ever poker champion in China. 2005 WSOP World Champion Joe Hachem finished in 8th place. [Bluff Magazine] :: Russian model, singer and former figure skater Anna Semenovich has something in common with JC Tran and Keeley Hazell and it rhymes with "smectacular creasts." [CamelTap (NSFW)] :: The Swedish government/poker monopoly has hit online poker site Multipoker.com with a €4.3 Million ($6 kajillionbazillion US) claim after concluding that its offices in the BVI were only a front. [LaunchPoker] :: Southern hottie Juda Jennings is one of the Maxim Hometown Hottie Finalists who gave winner Erin McKinnon a run for her money. [Maxim Online] :: Doyle Brunson, who hates Canadians, settled the score with billionaire Canuck Guy Laliberté by winning a $800k pot off him on High Stakes Poker. [PokerListings.com] :: Francesca Lukasik is the hottest Italian girl we've seen in the past cinque minuti. [DoubleViking.com] :: Daniel Idema won the BC Poker Championship held at the River Rock Casino and Igloo in Vancouver, Canada. FOWCP Lacey Jones was one of the US Americans who braved the year round sub-zero temperatures of the glacier lands north of our border to play the event. [Vancouver Sun]

We Nailed the Maxim Hometown Hottie Winner

We're not so much into bragging about our Nostradamus-like prognosticating skills as we are into pointing out when we we're frickin' geniuses at picking things. And the latest in the growing list of picks we've nailed is Maxim's Hometown Hottie of the Year contest.

Yep, Erin McKinnon (at right), who a few months ago we chose from the 100 girls left as a favorite to win the contest, was officially named Maxim's 2007 Hometown Hottie of the Year last week. The 23-year-old Univ. of Central Florida student beat out thousands of other chicks who ambitiously like to get half naked and pose for photos, and just like so many girls we dig (eg. Carrie Stroup, Katie Rees, Tara Conner, Danielle Lloyd, Caitlin Upton, Brandi Hawbaker) Erin is a beauty pageant chick (she is currently the reigning Miss Ormond Beach USA). It's funny, we never really considered tiara wearers our type, but when we looked beyond the superficial stuff and instead saw that they were the kinds of girls who shagged judges, made out with other hot chicks, posed for Playboy and said really stupid things in public, we saw their true inner beauty and they're now among our favorite kinds of girls, alongside promo/booth babes at conventions and supermodels with funny names.

For more of Erin, see photos after the jump from her MySpace page. Also check out her Maxim photos here.

For a video of the 2006 Hometown Hottie of the Year Kerry Suseck saying she'll never bare all (obviously not an ex-pageant chick), go here.