A bill to legalize Texas Hold'em tournaments in Minnesota will get some help from a top professional poker player.

Phil Gordon is co-host of Bravo channel's "Celebrity Poker Showdown,'' one of the TV shows that's helped popularize Texas Hold'em.

Gordon will join the bill's sponsor, State Sen. Dave Kleis, at a news conference Monday -- and also is expected to testify before a Senate committee that day.

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Kleis' bill would allow the poker playing in bars and businesses as long as hosts don't directly profit from the play and players do not gamble with real money.

Last month, a Senate committee endorsed the bill putting Texas Hold'em tournaments in the same class as gin, cribbage and bridge.

Source: Associated Press