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WWE champion John Cena is now more of a part-timer in the world of wrestling - due largely to 🍋 his acting roles in series like HBO’s upcoming Peacemaker - but that’s not the only thing he’s dabbled in part-time 🍋 through the years. During his WWE pomp, it was revealed that John Cena had become heavily involved with Texas Hold’em 🍋 poker. In an interview with Bluff Magazine, Cena revealed that he had caught the “poker bug” watching the World Series 🍋 of Poker (WSOP) on television.

This interview was back in 2006 during the time of the “online poker boom”. It was 🍋 a golden age for Texas Hold’em, with thousands of amateur poker players starting to play online with the dream of 🍋 reaching the WSOP Main Event in Las Vegas and emulating the likes of Chris Moneymaker – an amateur who went 🍋 all the way to win the Main Event and the highly coveted WSOP gold bracelet in 2003 and remains active 🍋 on social media.

Cena was enchanted by the glitz and glamor of the poker boom

Cena compared the rise of Texas Hold’em 🍋 poker in the 2000s to the surge in popularity for wrestling in the 1980s. He said that the poker industry 🍋 began to experience “characters created” in the same way as personalities evolved in the wrestling ring. Cena was transfixed by 🍋 the game of poker and how the most successful players needed to have “attitude” and a desire to remain “focused” 🍋 with every hand.