Vegetarian Star

Poker champion Annie Duke has a mail order service offering nuts and trail mix combinations called My Mixed Nuts.

One such mix of nuts available for purchase is the “Gummy Delicious” bag, which comes with dark chocolate chips, sour cherries, roasted and salted almonds, raw macadamia nuts, golden raisins and “sunny bears.”

What the heck are sunny bears?

Organic and vegetarian versions of gummy bears!

That’s right, no gelatin my friends.

Annie came up with the idea of My Mixed Nuts after not finding the perfect combo of nuts, seeds and fruits in trail mixes she purchased at grocery stores.

Annie would pick through the bags and throw away the undesired content.

Forming business partnerships with Apprentice producer Ryan Simpkins and boyfriend Joe Reitman and with the help of Simpkins mother to run the website, Annie turned My Mixed Nuts from a dream to reality.

Question of the day.

Did Annie purposely ensure her “sunny bears” would be suitable for vegetarians?

Wonder if Daniel Negreanu carries a sunny bear mix in his pocket while playing the chips.

Make your own trail mix and grab some sunny bears at mymixednuts.com.

via pokernewsdaily.com

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Poker playing champion Daniel Negreanu takes a little humorous heat from his buddies every now and then for his herbivore diet, as he described during a recent blog entry at cardplayer.com:

“After dinner we all went to my house to do a golf pool for the tournament. Then, Erick went after my books again. I have boxes of my book at home that are there for me to sign and he likes to mess with them, writing messages on random pages. He’ll write “I hit the ball like a vegan, signed Daniel Negreanu” or other equally stupid stuff.”

Considering this vegan since 2003 has several poker accomplishments under his belt, we’d saying hitting the ball like a veg ain’t a bad thing at all.

Keep workin’ the vegan chips, Daniel!

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HSUS on Flickr

Pokerstars.net and the Hollywood office of the Humane Society of the United States recently got together for an evening of gambling, vegan snacks, and fun.

Actress Jorja Fox looked lovelier than ever as she played her chips and cards and fellow veggie actress Shannon Elizabeth was also dealing a sharp hand to help the animals. 

Proceeds from the “Casino Royale: Playing for Change” event went towards implementing the Los Angeles HSUS’s End Dogfighting program, which educates high risk youth about caring for pit bulls versus putting them up for dogfighting. The program has already proven successful in other large cities like Chicago.

This past weekend’s event included blackjack, roulette, craps and poker, a martini and wine bar, gourmet vegan food catered by Madeleine Bistro, a silent auction, and a celebrity poker tournament.

Wonder if vegan poker great Daniel Negreanu made an appearance?

Read more about the event on the Humane Society’s blog at hsus.org and look at  more pics from the evening on their Flickr page.

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Poker champ Daniel Negreanu has given poker lessons to several celebrities, including fellow vegetarian Tobey Maguire.

Although Tobey still does occasional dairy, Negreanu went completely vegan in 2003. Wonder if they shared secrets for five bean soup as well as five card draw?

Either Negreanu is a good teacher, Maguire is a good student or both.

Tobey has become quite accomplished, competing and winning in tournaments like World Poker Tour and World Series of Poker. He won first place in the Phil Hellmuth Invitational – No Limit Hold’em 2004 National Championship of Poker in Los Angeles. The prize money was a nice $95,480.

Of course that’s pocket change to an actor that pulls millions from a single movie, but hey, bragging rights are priceless.

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Hmmm…says Daniel Negreanu. Who should I endorse next? Boca Burgers-maybe, Poker VT-definitely, McDonald’s-heck NO!

Canadian Poker Champion Daniel Negreanu has earned great success at many professional poker events, including the World Series of Poker Events. He’s also appeared on Late Night Poker, Poker After Dark, and High Stakes Poker.  Oh, and he’s been a vegan since 2003.

A star such as this obviously will have endorsement moguls banging at the door, but Negreanu won’t hand over his chips to just any company. And he’ll never forget the job he’s there to do.

“I’m a vegan, so obviously I won’t do a McDonald’s ad,” Negreanu said. “The main thing is to continue to do the best I can at poker.”

via Review Journal
Photo: flipchip / LasVegasVegas.com on Wikimedia Commons

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