FORGET the pool - once soft-spoken Olympics champ Michael Phelps has turned into a party and poker animal, surrounding himself with bimbos and booze. A source says Phelps spent much of Thanksgiving weekend playing 10-20, no-limit hold-’em at the Borgata in Atlantic City. Although a dealer reports he lost several thousand dollars on Thursday, Phelps was back at the tables Friday. Phelps, who won more than $5,000 in a tournament at Caesars in Vegas, has spent his free time hanging with poker legends like Doyle Brunson.
To some extent, I see where he’s coming from. I mean, he’s already, like, the single greatest Olympic champion in U.S. history, so there’s not much room for improvement there. He wants a new challenge, and he’s selected poker. I guess I don’t personally understand the draw of poker, but it just makes me so unhappy to think of my precious little Michael in all these casinos with floozies and low-lifes. He should be at home, cooking my dinner and giving me foot rubs, naked with an Adrian Grenier mask on.
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