Mariah Carey won $27,000 at a poker game in Las Vegas last Friday. Carey, 35, invited at producer Jermaine Dupri's birthday party at the opening of the Tao restaurant from Venetian Hotel, visited a nearby casino to play some poker.

The Diva, who won $27,000 after just three rounds of the game, confessed she's not a poker player, so the winning was not on account of her skills.

Contactmusic.com quote her as saying: "I used to play poker with my sister. But I think my low-cut dress put some of the guys off."

The pop star, born on March 27, 1970 in New York, became America's most successful recording artist for that decade, according to Billboard magazine.

The World Music Awards recognized her as the world's biggest-selling artist of the '90s and declared her the best-selling female pop artist of all time in 2000.

She has produced every one of her ten studio albums, except the debut one and directed music her videos.
Since 1999, she has occasionally worked as an actress and supported a variety of charitable organizations.