If you've been following the celebrity highway may be you've missed the road signs along the way that told you what celebs are playing lately, which games and where – playing poker and notable charity poker tournament at casinos.
Either way, whether you see them or not, they are there, at these popular celebrity poker player Rob Schneider was once spotted at Rio All Suite Hotels and Casino in Las Vegas in a very notable cause of Ante Up For Africa – A 3rd Annual Celebrity-Charity Poker Tournament where he compete with other co-celebrities and professional poker players.
Rob Schneider with Don Cheadle, Matt Damon, Jason Alexander, Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith, Montel Williams, Herschel Walker, Hank Azaria, Brad Garrett, Marlon Wayans, Sarah Silverman, Casey Affleck. The proceeds from the Ante Up For Africa tournament will once again go to charities The Enough Project, that provide aid and assistance to the survivors of the crisis in Darfur, Sudan and support activism dedicated to resolving this crisis. Previous Ante Up tournaments have raised more than $2,000,000 for the cause.
About Rob Schneider: With a true hot blood Filipino that encompasses a true great skills and talent. And whatever talent may be, from actor, comedian, screenwriter, and director. A stand-up comic and veteran of the NBC sketch-comedy series Saturday Night Live. Name it, he has it! Robert Michael Schneider started his stand-up comedy career shortly after high school.
The Pacifica, California native played Bay Area nightclubs such as the Holy City Zoo and the Other Cafe, and was a regular guest on local radio programs. After opening a show by comedian Dennis Miller in 1987, Schneider won a slot on HBO's 13th Annual Young Comedians special, which was hosted by Miller. Schneider's appearance on the HBO special led to a position as a writer for NBC's long-running sketch-comedy series Saturday Night Live.
A graduate of Terra Nova High School in 1981, Schneider started the "Rob Schneider Music Foundation" in 1996. The foundation brought back music education to Pacifica's elementary schools, by paying the teachers' salaries and providing funds for instruments and other equipment. Prior to the establishment of Schneider's foundation, twenty years had passed without music education in those schools.
Rob Schneider has appeared in a number of comedies starring Adam Sandler, another Saturday Night Live alumnus. The comedic characters Schneider plays in these films include an overly enthusiastic Cajun man who utters the catch-phrase “You can do it!” an amiable Middle Eastern delivery boy; and Sandler's one-eyed Hawaiian sidekick Ula.
Rob Schneider honed a persona that was hapless, but vulnerable and sweet-natured. He has made good use of that guise as the star of feature-film comedies, starting in 1999 with the box-office and video success Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo - the cheerfully scatological tale of a fish-tank cleaner who incurs a massive debt and is forced to become a "man-whore" with an inept pimp (comedian Eddie Griffin).
This was followed by The Animal, about a nebbish who is given animal powers by a mad scientist; The Hot Chick, wherein the brain of a petty thief (Schneider) is mystically switched into the body of a pretty, but mean-spirited high-school cheerleader Rachel McAdams; and the sequel Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, reuniting Schneider with Griffin. In 2006, Schneider co-starred in the baseball-themed family comedy The Benchwarmers, along with his fellow SNL alumnus David Spade, and Jon Heder of the cult film Napoleon Dynamite and his latest comedy movie, Big Stan.
