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Ghostface Killah, one of the original members of the seminal rap group Wu-Tang Clan, has put his name and face on a new online poker site that is aimed directly at those who make the multi-billion dollar hip hop industry click.
GFKPoker.com launched early in February, and just by pulling the site up and turning the volume up, players - and we mean poker players - will know that this isn't Chris Moneymaker's daddy's poker site.
'This is why the World Series of Poker is decided over a no-limit poker tournament,' blares the Ghostface song 'Pokerface' when the site pops up. The song appeared on Ghostface Killah's last album, 'More Fish,' and it's got to be the first hip-hop song to use the sound of shuffling poker chips in it.
'I'm here to bring some excitement to the game,' says Ghostface. 'Sometimes you got to test the waters.'
Ghostface's executive producer and manager, Mike Caruso, and Shawn Wiggs, the songwriter of 'Pokerface,' are hard-core poker players. They, along with Ghostface and gorgeous New York DJ Angie Martinez (whom Caruso calls a cash game whiz), make up the GFK Crew.
Just about every weekend, Caruso and Wiggs make the trip from New York City to Atlantic City to play at the Borgata. Both Caruso and Wiggs have played in at least one World Poker Tour event, and they take the game as seriously as anyone who sits and hangs at the weekly $560 tournaments in AC.
It really was only a matter of time before hip-hop found poker, and although GFKPoker isn't the first site to feature a rapper as the spokesman, it's the first one to absolutely stay true to the hip-hop culture. GFKPoker comes right out and says it: 'This is where hip-hop plays hold'em.'
Poker came to Ghostface thanks to Wiggs and Caruso. In their studio on Staten Island, they had an extra room in the back. Since they were playing poker at least once a week, they decided to move the poker table into the extra room and play when there was nothing else to do.
It's a game in which comments like these are born, says Caruso: 'Method Man came down the studio one night and was wiping everyone with rags.'
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Although Ghostface didn't play before then, he couldn't stay away. It looked like the players were having too much fun back there, and he just had to sit down and see what it was about. He says dice is his game, but he's pretty much hooked on hold'em now.
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GFKPoker is a real-money site that accepts U.S. players. It's a skin of the Off the Rail Poker Network, which has about 20,000 customers. In addition to cash, soon the site will hold tournaments for players to win everything from $20,000 watches to trips to see Ghostface live.
Ghostface says he's not ready to go play ball with Caruso, Wiggs, and the other players who populate the big tournaments, but he's getting ready. He says pretty soon they'll be rolling into the cardroom, a briefcase full of cash handcuffed to his wrist, and that all the people will know who's there to play.
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Ghostface, they already do.
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