Fox Sports star Nick Wright details wild $250K gambling win

From short stack to whale. During a recent side quest for Fox Sports, Nick Wright, who co-hosts the network’s flagship television show “First Things First,” landed an earth-shattering payday at a recent poker tournament that featured a star-studded cast of pro poker stars, NBA players and business mogulsWright divulged to The Post in an exclusive interview how he sat down at a table with some poker legends and walked away with more than just his shirt – to the tune of $250,000. The weekend started with Russell Westbrook’s famous charity poker event fearuing a massive buy-in for NBA players, with the proceeds going to the “Why Not? Foundation.”“Because of that, there were a lot of folks who aren’t always in Vegas at one time, so ‘No Gamble No Future’ wanted to put on a really big streamed game,” Wright explained.Wright broadcasts live events for the poker program and has competed on the show over the years.The event featured poker stars Antonio Esfandiari, “The Magician” — a Hall of Fame poker player — Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi and actress Jennifer Tilly, among others.Due to some bailing on the event, Wright entered the mix.He sat down with a relatively small sum of money compared to the rest of the table.“Antonio is going to buy into this game for a quarter of a million dollars … I am going to sit with forty grand, which I understand these numbers are crazy and this is an enormous amount of money, but in this game it is not,” Wright explained.Wright added that he beat Tilly by calling a big raise and bluff from the “Bride of Chucky” star with bottom pair to get him “off and running.”He said: “The game is called.I bought in for 40 and I never rebought … and in front of me is $250,2000.” Wright added that he doesn’t intend to buy himself anything too big. “I will occasionally, from gambling winnings, buy myself a watch as like a trophy,” Wright explained, while admitting that his wife Danielle Wri...