Can good actors make good poker players? The answer is yes!! As Zac Efron can do both! It was an unlikely meeting of minds that happened on last year night at the Crown Casino in Melbourne. American rock 'n' roll group the Kings of Leon went up against Hollywood heart-throb Zac Efron in a superstar game of poker!
Both celebrity poker players Zac Efron and the Kings of Leon had been staying at the Crown Towers luxury hotel at the Casino and decided to place some bets against each other. Zac Efron proved he was no slouch with the cards, emerging victorious after several hours of playing.The game got under way at Crown after Zac Efron's appearance on Rove and wound up about 3am on Monday.
Best poker player Joe Hachem said about Zac Efron, "He is pumped. He wants to have another crack, but I would not have the heart to beat him, I think he (Efron) was probably the most seasoned player of all of them, even though he was the youngest, I think he has won one or two small tournaments in LA. We were only playing for fun money, but it is the competition that counts”.
About Zac Efron: Zachary David Alexander Efron began landing roles in television shows such as “ER”, “CSI - Miami”, “The Suite Life of Zac and Cody”, and eventually became a series regular for the WB (Now CW) series “Summerland”. After Summerland ended Zac Efron took parts in movies such as “Miracle Run” and “The Durby Stallion” and in 2006 took part in a small film named “High School Musical”, the movie ended up launching his career worldwide, the movie also launched a number one soundtrack featuring the single “Breaking Free” with Vanessa Hudgens.
In the enormously popular Disney Channel movie High School Musical, Zac Efron played Troy, a popular basketball player who discovers a secret passion for singing and joins forces with a shy, brainy newcomer to audition for the school musical.
Zac Efron did however take all of this in stride and recorded his own vocals for “Hairspray”, which would be his first film after High School Mania had hit the movie grossed $27,476,745 it’s opening weekend and became the third highest grossing musical film in the United States. In 2007 Efron began work on the second High School Musical film which aired in August of 2007 on Disney and raked in 17.2 Million viewers opening night and became the most viewed basic cable telecast in history and over all over 88 Million worldwide have seen the film.
Zac Efron just can't seem to get out of high school. After repeat matriculation into High School Musical no less than three times, the gifted musician and actor with a sense of humor on the zany side, is returning to class yet again on screen in Burr Steers' 17 Again.
This split personality excellent adventure for Zac Efron and Matthew Perry, finds them as essentially the same guy sharing one body, but dividing up their before and after conflicted lifetime between adolescence and adulthood. Zac took in stride during our interview, the question as to whether Zac or Matthew as main character Mike, was having more fun.
