Dancing With the Stars Results has Poker Pro Shannon Elizabeth Moving to Next Round

The poker community favorite, Shannon Elizabeth, moves on to the next round of Dancing With the Stars following a double elimination night - the first of the new season.

Elizabeth, who starred in American Pie, is an accomplished poker player.

Elizabeth, who describes poker as her "second career" has been called "one of the leading celebrity poker players."

She visits Las Vegas up to three times each month to participate in poker games with the top players of the United States. Elizabeth played in the Main Event of the 2005 World Series of Poker and won a special tournament celebrating the opening of a new poker room at Caesars Palace hotel in January 2006, beating out 83 celebrities and poker professionals to win $55,000.

She has also cashed four times in the World Series of Poker in 2006 and 2007, but again busted out of the Main Event early. In 2007, she advanced to the semi-finals of the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship in a field consisting of the top poker professionals before losing to eventual champion Paul Wasicka. Among the four opponents she defeated were three World Series of Poker multiple bracelet winners: Jeff Madsen, Barry Greenstein, and Humberto Brenes.

The online poker room Full Tilt Poker once had a sponsorship agreement with Elizabeth but that eroded.  Bodog Poker we learned this week, is pursuing Shannon Elizabeth.  She is friendly with beloved Bodog founder Calvin Ayre.

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Jordan Bach, Gambling911.com

Originally published March 25, 2008 9:44 pm EST