My bet is Sarah Palin knows 0. Barack Obama … less clear — he plays poker, sure, but he\’s been pretty busy since July, so I think the good money for him would also be 0 … maybe 1 accidentally, so let\’s set the over/under for him at 1/2. (I\’ll take the under.)
How many do I know — as someone who reads tons about poker, spends my whole day somehow connected to it, thinking about it, playing it, yadda yadda, with tons of emails clogging my inbox with profiles of each of these guys?
6.
OK, maybe 6.5 … I was working on something else, looking up some data on each of the remaining WSOP main event players, and I had to write down each of their names. Six came easy … and one other I was pretty sure of, but I had no clue if I was pronouncing and spelling it right. (Turns out I was off by only one letter.)
So really, try it. Don\’t cheat — the info is out there everywhere if you look, but do you know it off the top of your head? It\’s been four months.
Next Quiz: How many 3rd place finishers can you name (again, WSOP main event, off the top of your head) since 2003? I got a solid 1 on that one.
