LeBron James Plays Online Poker In video with Drake, Kanye West, Lil Wayne, Eminem
A new video came out yesterday … the long-awaited premiere of “Forever” by Drake (featuring Kanye West, Lil Wayne, and Eminem) … which apparently is the second single off the soundtrack to More than a Game, a forthcoming documentary about LeBron James.
Check out how the video starts … an awkwardly cut opening with LeBron in a limo playing online poker (on PokerStars). Can’t quite tell what stakes he’s playing for, but his screen name is “RealLebron”, and he appears to be playing a short-stacked heads-up tourney (against “Royal 00’/”). Blinds are 10/20 … the little blind calls and the NBA star smiles, seemingly ready to move all-in for 970 more with pocket 4s.
Nice!
Then you realize he must be multi-tabling, playing a 6-handed cash game, too … then, PokerStars cameo complete, the real song begins.
California Jen says:
September 23rd, 2009 at 9:59am
Is it just me, or does Drake sound a lot like Jeff Madsen rapping?
ClarkMatt says:
September 23rd, 2009 at 10:02am
Fantastic write up, Dan! I didn’t even look that closely.
Jen – pls take that back 🙂
California Jen says:
September 23rd, 2009 at 4:47pm
Hahaha – sorry Matt. Truth.
Kevin Mathers says:
September 23rd, 2009 at 6:09pm
Both tournaments were play money tournaments on Stars (props to a random person on 2+2 for posting):
PokerStars Tournament #197382140, No Limit Hold’em
Buy-In: 300/20
2 players
Total Prize Pool: 600
Tournament started 2009/09/21 17:52:11 ET
Tournament finished 2009/09/21 18:17:14 ET
1: Royal.00’/ (Stuttgart), 600 (100%)
2: RealLebron (new york)
PokerStars Tournament #195925671, No Limit Hold’em
Freeroll
6 players
Tournament started 2009/09/16 11:30:00 ET
Tournament finished 2009/09/16 13:49:03 ET
1: RealLebron (new york),
2: 1DrizzyDrake (New York),
3: RealLilWayne (New York),
4: RealKanyeWes (New York),
5: mad-0-bomber (New York),
6: TheRelapse2 (new york),