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Phelps Gets High on $5,000 Pot

Posted Oct 21st 2008 11:02AM by TMZ Staff

Michael Phelps has a serious chip on his shoulder -- and even more in his pockets.

Captain Speedo is on a serious mission to become a respected world-class poker player ... and he's off to a pretty good start. Phelps hit the poker room at the Bellagio in Vegas the other day, where he strapped on his iPod, cracked open a Bud Lite, and ponied up at a no-limit Texas Hold 'em game.

We're told at one point, Phelps raked in a pot worth around $5,000! But there's more...

Over the weekend, Phelps entered a No Limit tourney at Caesars Palace, where he placed 9th out of 187 entrants. In fact, he did so well, Phelps was even awarded a cheesy gold medallion. Gotta love that.

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1. kelly ripa has great feet.

Posted at 11:26AM on Oct 21st 2008 by artie help

2. You aren't allowed to have an iPod on while at the table, same goes for cell phones or any other electronic device. That's a breach of house rules.

Posted at 11:33AM on Oct 21st 2008 by John

3. lol i was going to say the same thing about the ipod and cell phones, whats up with that? either they treat him like he is famous and dont care or tmz shows fake photo's

Posted at 11:54AM on Oct 21st 2008 by kami

4. Dude. He's Michael freakin Phelps. He can do whatever he wants.

Posted at 12:02PM on Oct 21st 2008 by Slyy

5. Rules are Rules, and no one should be treated lesser than the next, its discrimination!!!!!! he is no better than anyone else.

Posted at 12:13PM on Oct 21st 2008 by kami

6. He's better than you #5......
What have you done with your life?

Posted at 12:34PM on Oct 21st 2008 by Jud

7. Yeah, he only broke a bunch of world records and won more medals than anyone ever. No biggie. This morning I only hit the snooze button 4 times. That's a big accomplishment for me. He's no better than anyone else!

//sarcasm//

Posted at 12:43PM on Oct 21st 2008 by Ho Hum

8. The olympics are over. No more Phelps stories for 4 years, PLEASE! He's vile.

Posted at 12:49PM on Oct 21st 2008 by aunt Flo

9. They can go ahead and hang Fort Knox around Michael Phelps' neck... all the gold in the world isn't going to buy him a personality. Maybe a little gold could help pay someone to fix that lispy, mush-mouth speech impediment of his, though.

Posted at 12:49PM on Oct 21st 2008 by Sencho

10. I'm offended as a lush that you spelled Bud Light wrong. It's MILLER LITE that spells it with the i-t-e. Bud Light is spelled exactly like this. Come on, TMZ, get it right!

Posted at 1:42PM on Oct 21st 2008 by Erin

11. Why doesn't he just go away?! He's not a celebrity! He's just an ugly big eared ADD freak! I want to flick his ears like the kids used to do when he was in school. Remember that, Phelps? FLICK! FLICK! Retard...

Posted at 3:41PM on Oct 21st 2008 by Andrea

12. The fact that TMZ can't even spell "Bud Light" correctly proves what sort of NERDS work there!!! Get your pasty white a$$ out from behind your computer screen and go talk to an actual human being in a bar.

Posted at 4:17PM on Oct 21st 2008 by SCHOOL MARM

13. Hey Knobs-
what casino do you play at- I was at Foxwoods last Sunday playing no limit, and half the players had Ipods.
The bigger question is, where is Phelp's chips- he looks busted.

Posted at 4:50PM on Oct 21st 2008 by JMURP

14. to number 6 respons, I said that he was no better than anyone else, so you ask me what I have done with my life? well I never said I was better than anyone else, im just a plain jane who works for child support collecting money from dead beat parents, (sound familiar?) I take care of my family and have worked since I was 16, I do alot of Charity contributions and every year I send several Holiday stockings that are about 2 feet tall to the Troops with Needed items in them that they have asked for, I have no family ever in the military but choose to do this for my country as a citizen. so I have not done much with my life. But from the way you speak to people it seens your pretty much a looser.

Posted at 6:27PM on Oct 21st 2008 by kami

15. Hey, kami, before you call anyone ELSE a loser, learn how to spell loser. Here's how loser is spelled: loser. And Michael Phelps IS better than you. So are Tiger Woods, Rafael Nadal and Annika Sorenstam. They can't even pay for dinner at a restaurant - unless they insist. That's how cool they are. People will pay six figures to spend an hour with these people. What's your rate? I'm glad there are people as fabulous as Michael Phelps. They do marvelous things. They inspire millions. They make interesting reading. No one would give six bits for my story. Yours?

Posted at 7:58PM on Oct 21st 2008 by Winston Smith

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