T.I. appears to be a natural when it comes to poker. Sources tell TMZ.com the rap superstar played in his first ever live poker game this week and won a few thousand dollars. T.I. performed in St. Louis on Monday night and reportedly decided to kill a little time before his flight by hitting up the Lumiere Casino. Tip is said to have bought into a poker game for 500 dollars, and wound up leaving the table with between 25-hundred and three-thousand dollars.

When he’s not busy at the poker tables, T.I. is working on his next studio effort “Trouble Man.” The record is expected to drop sometime later this year. “Trouble Man” will be Tip’s follow-up to 2010’s “No Mercy,” which hit number one on Billboard’s Top Rap Albums chart.
TI and Nelly teamed up earlier this week to shoot the video for their song “This Time of Night” off TIP’s new mixtape “F*ck Da City Up.’ The video, shot in ATL’s famed strip club “Diamonds” of Atlanta is already being labeled as “Tip Drill Pt 2.” Nelly and T.I. I can’t wait to see it…