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Poker pro Annie Duke with TV star Ray Romano at the Ante Up For Africa charity event during the 2008 WSOP. (Bodog Beat Image)

Poker pro Annie Duke, pictured above with TV star Ray Romano, is no stranger to rubbing elbows with celebrities in the name of charity. For the past two summers, Duke and movie star Don Cheadle have hosted the Ante Up For Africa celebrity poker tournament during the World Series of Poker. So, it would only make sense that Duke should find herself cast as on one of the more popular reality shows at the moment, Celebrity Apprentice.

In this new season of the show, however, the players aren't competing to win a spot within the Trump organization, they are playing to win money for their chosen charity. Duke is playing for Refugees International, very much in line with her work for Ante Up For Africa. The winner will also receive a $250,000 bonus check for their charity.

Getting to that point through will involve getting through a laundry list of A, B, C and D-list celebrities. Appearing on the show with Duke are musician Khloe Kardashian, Dennis Rodman, female golfer Natalie Gulbis, Herschel Walker, Clint Black, comedians Andrew Dice Clay and Tom Green, Joan Rivers and her daughter Melissa Rivers, Scott Hamilton, Jesse James, Claudia Jordan (Deal or No Deal ), Brian McKnight, Brande Roderick and Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins.

The eighth season of the Apprentice gets underway on NBC on March 1 at 9 p.m. ET.

Bodog Poker's own Jean Robert Bellande was the first poker professional to star on a reality TV show when he made an appearance on the CBS show Survivor: China.