WPT Introduces New Poker Hostess Sabina Gadecki

Sabina Gadecki follows Shana Hiatt and Courtney Friel in a line of model/hostess/actresses, kicking off the World Poker Tour's fifth season of popular poker programming.

Gadecki's television debut was at the Bicycle Casino's 2006 Legends of Poker, but her career began as a beauty pageant contestant, winning Miss Western Massachusetts and Miss Polonia back in 2002.

According to WPT representatives, their second hostess, Courtney Friel, would not be renewing her contract after the fourth season and producers were on the lookout for new talent. Gadeki was discovered when her New York agent submitted a headshot of the young model to the WPT and they responded. A request for a demo followed and Gadecki was provided with sample clips of veteran hostesses Hiatt and Friel opening televised episodes and conducting interviews with poker players. After reviewing the material, Gadecki collaborated with some of her closest friends and set out to videotape her own comical version of one of the more impressionable clips.

Donning cliché Vegas-style attire and cowboy boots, Gadecki mimicked Hiatt in animated fashion, literally kicking off her boots as she delivered the line, "So kick off your shoes and stay a while." She closed with a brief narrated bio and then spontaneously turned the camera on her friends who were assisting with the amateur production, thanking them for their help. When her agent reviewed the completed project, he warned, "They'll either think you're crazy, or they'll love it."

WPT producers contacted Gadecki's agent and she began touring in June.

Gadecki is currently studying at Fordham Univeristy, majoring in international business, with a minor in communications. She recently finished her first of a two-year stint at William Esper.

Honing her statuesque and lean figure with years of formal dance study, Gadecki is a member of a troop named TADAH (Tap, Acting, Dance, And Hip-hop), led by renowned choreographer Jared Grimes, who was responsible for the early dance teachings of Mya and Mariah Carey. Gadecki also attends ballet and hip-hop classes at the Broadway Dance Center.

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