SPOILERS FOR BRAVO's CELEBRITY POKER SHOWDOWN!!!

This really does have something to do with cats....

Over the past year, televised poker tournaments have become the rage
on US television. The game of choice is the variety known as Texas
Hold'em.

So over the past month, the Bravo cable tv network has broadcast
weekly 1-hour episodes of the "Celebrity Poker Showdown". It was a
poker tournament where 25 celebrities played for a $250K prize pool,
with prizes going to charity.

Each week 5 celebrities played until only one is left. (some of the
celebrities involved, such as Ben Affleck and Hank Azaria, are known
to be very good poker players too). Each weekly winner's charity got
the prize money, and the weekly losers' charities also received lesser
amounts.

Tonight they showed the final episode, a 2 hour special where the
weekly winners faced off, with the champion earning another $100K for
their charity and lesser bonus amounts for the losers' charities.

So what does this have to do with cats? One of the celebrities was an
actress named Nicole Sullivan, who played for a charity named Alley
Cat Allies, a group that helps feral cats.  She made it to tonight's
championship game.    And she won!  : )

It was kind of cute after she won - when she talked about how this
wasn't a rich charity and could really use the money, she was near
tears. That, or all the beer she'd been drinking was coming out <g>

Congratulations to Nicole Sullivan and Alley Cat Allies!

"Celebrity Poker Showdown" -->
http://www.bravotv.com/Celebrity_Poker_Showdown/

Nicole Sullivan --> http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005474/

Alley Cat Allies -->  http://www.alleycat.org

Jeanne Hedge, as directed by Natasha

http://www.jhedge.com