Six months back Christina Lindley would have been known for her lingerie shoots and her fitness videos, activities that Wicked Chops Poker held synonymous with being a "star", not of the poker kind if you know what I mean.

But Now Christina has Wicked Chops eating their words because she is involved with three activities centered on poker.  

In a blog on BSN, where she is Team BSN Athlete, Christina said, “This week I’m in LAS VEGAS. I have been training dually: for poker, and to look good! I am shooting the BEST Damn Poker Show in less than a week and representing TLF and BSN at the table …” Christina got the offer to do this show while she was at WSOP 2008. She auditioned a couple of times and was selected. The Best Damn Poker Show is sponsored by Ultimate Bet and will be aired on Fox Sports. It will feature Annie Duke and Phil Hellmuth as competing poker tutors. And if the grapevine is to be believed then this season of the Best Damn Poker Show will have Mari Ho on the rails and interaction between Christina and Maria is on the cards. 

Christina, who regularly blogs at health and fitness portal BSN, has also started blogging at Gambling911.com. Only her first blog is long enough to be her poker autobiography.

Christina took to playing poker during the writer’s strike in Hollywood. She wrote a concept for a poker show, which she showed to Kasey Thompson the owner of ALL IN poker magazine. One does not know what happened to the show, but Christina was introduced to the world of poker brand ambassadors. She writes of that breed in most flattering terms, “… who did nothing but party, travel the world with their friends, drink, and play cards all night. They had no one to answer to but themselves...oh yeah, and their backers, on occasion. Being a professional poker player was like being Peter Pan - but rich. I was immediately hooked.” 

Then Christina began to prepare herself for that lifestyle. She ate poker, she drank poker and she lived poker. Poker shows, poker books, live poker tournaments and online poker tournaments became her staple diet. To top it all she received constant coaching from some of the top pros in the industry. Christina also realized that is a difference between male and female poker players. In her blog she writes, “I also realized that as a woman it was a completely different ball game playing with the big boys. They immediately either push way to hard against you, or “instafold”. Either way, that is not usually what you want!”

This led to her third poker activity. Christina has decided to form a team of lady poker players. She calls the team TWC. She does not want to say what the initials stand for but it should not be too difficult to guess. One of the reasons for this stems from her observation that there is bonhomie among the guys on the poker circuit, but there is bitchiness among the women. Christina intends to change this. She feels that if she succeeds women will start faring better in tournaments.