Laura Prepon has an addiction. It’s not enough that she’s one of the main characters (Donna Pinciotti) on FOX’s hugely successful That ’70s Show. It’s not enough that she recently completed work on a movie (The Perfect Couple) in which she had a leading role. It’s not enough that she’s hot enough to be a Maxim cover girl — she did just that in November of 2004. Where does this woman find the time to play poker nearly every night? Does she ever sleep? And now she has a new poker show on the E! network. Not only was she on the first episode, she’s the creator and executive producer of the show. She’s making the rest of Hollywood, with all of their free time to buy groceries or go to movie premieres or get their hair cut, look like hopeless slackers.

On any given night at the home of Prepon and her boyfriend, Chris Masterson (Francis on Malcolm in the Middle), there’s a colorful cast of characters around the poker table. There’s Bobbo, who has been affectionately nicknamed Huck, as in Huckleberry Finn or the Riverboat Captain. He tends to suck out on the river, according to Prepon and the other regulars. There’s also Josh, who goes by the name “Flashdance.” He sometimes wins a hand with absolute rags just because he had a feeling, which prompts the entire table to sing “What a feeling!” Six Feet Under’s Eric Balfour is named “Bluffour” for obvious reasons. John is called the General because he likes to run the table, and his wife Val goes by “Running Man” for her tendency to chase. Laura’s boyfriend, Chris, answers to Lord Christopher, and his brother Danny, who is Laura’s fellow cast member on That ’70s Show, is called Phil Hellmuth. “No matter …

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