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"In a TMZ story over the weekend, &lt;strong&gt;Lakers&lt;/strong&gt; star &lt;strong&gt;Kobe Bryant&lt;/strong&gt; beat poker champion &lt;strong&gt;Antonio Esfandiari&lt;/strong&gt; in a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=\"http://www.tmz.com/2007/09/03/kobes-21-000-bubbly-bill/\"&gt;Cristal champagne-off&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; at BLUSH nightclub in Vegas. Turns out, that wasn't the case -- of bubbly!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://ll-media.tmz.com/2007/09/06/0906_kobe_bill_tmz_fm-1.jpg\" alt=\"Kobe Bryant\" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Antonio, through his rep Anthony Giombetti, told us: \"Even though Kobe Bryant and his friends were having fun with my friends (really all of the credit goes to my friend Manny Khoshben) and I, in a spirited competition of who could out-spend the other on champagne, the fact is his party only ordered approximately 15 bottles of Cristal at $21,000, whereas we bought 26 bottles with a bill of $34,731.\"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Antonio, whose own account can be found on AlwaysBluff.com, was even kind enough to attach a receipt ... that includes a nearly $6,000 tip. Who wants to work at the Wynn?!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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