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Award-Winning Daily Show and Tonight Show Writer Set to Play in the 2015 WSOP Main Event

Daily Show alumn, current Tonight Show staffer and eight-time Emmy Award winning comedy writer J.R. Havlan is headed to the 2015 World Series of Poker to play in the Main Event.

Havlan, who spent 18 years writing for the The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and is now writing for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, recently took to YouTube posting a video outlining how he won a seat in poker's World Championship and plans to let the world follow his poker journey.