Slowly getting angrier every year since 1996.

For a $1,000 buy-in, you shouldn’t have to play poker with Sally Jessy Raphael. Fortunately, Montel Williams is stepping in to take care of all your former-daytime-talk-host-turned-celeb-tournament-organizer needs Friday at the Golden Nugget.

Williams hosts a 600-person tourney with half the prize pool going to benefit the Montel Williams MS Foundation. Williams was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1999.

Walking the red carpet at 5 p.m. prior to the start of the tourney will be entertainers Nathan Burton and Gordie Brown, actress Robin Givens and poker pros Daniel Negreanu, Scott Fischman, Allen Cunningham, Jamie Gold, Gavin Smith, Kirk Morrison, Melissa Hayden, Dan Fleishman and Thomas Keller. Our money is on Givens to rampage her way through a series of all-ins that cripple Cunningham, Smith and Negreanu in order.

By Jason Scavone