Poker Trivia Question #18

Q: What is the playing style of a “rock”?

A: A rock is someone who plays very tight and careful. They only raise with the best hands and rarely bluff and are therefore, very predictable; not much action coming from them.

Poker Trivia Question #17

Q: How many one eyed jacks are there in a deck of cards?

A: Two. Jack of spades and jack of hearts.

Poker Trivia Question #16

Q: In Hold’em, when are you “on the button”?

A: When you’re the dealer.

Poker Trivia Question #15

Q: Which professional poker player is a former professional football player?

A: T. J. Cloutier played in the Canadian Football League, once for the Montreal Allouettes and also for the Toronto Argonauts.

Poker Trivia Question #14

Q: In Hold’em, when are you “under the gun”?

A: When you’re first to act – in the earliest position.

Poker Trivia Question #13

Q: Who was the last man to win back-to-back World Series of Poker Main Event Championships?

A: Johnny Chan. He shot to fame in the late 1980s, winning the championship event of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in 1987 and 1988. He almost won a third consecutive title, but finished in 2nd place in 1989 to Phil Hellmuth.

Poker Trivia Question #12

Q: Which professional poker player recently posed in Maxim Magazine and appeared on Fox Sports Best Damn Sports Show Period, where she challenged Paris Hilton to a tournament in which the winner will receive $100,000 (put up by Full Tilt Poker) to award to the charity of her choice?

A: Clonie Gowen. “Paris seems to be a great girl, however, she represents everything that I am not, but now that she has stepped into my world (the poker world) I challenge her to put her poker skills to work for charity; $100,000 will go a long way to helping those in need. Paris, are you in?” Gowen said.

Poker Trivia Question #11

Q: Which professional poker player is a former kindergarten teacher?

A: Dewey Tomko, with almost $3 million dollars in tournament winnings, has been profiled on the World Poker Tour as having once been a kindergarten teacher in Winter Haven, Florida.

Poker Trivia Question #10

Q: Which online poker room sent the most players to the 2005 World Series of Poker?

A: During the last three years, PokerStars.com sent more players to the World Series of Poker (WSOP) than any other source or website. A whopping 1,116 entrants (19 percent of the field) qualified to play in the 2005 WSOP via PokerStars satellites.

PokerStars.com is the site where the 2003 and 2004 World Series of Poker champions won their entries into the WSOP. The reigning world poker champion, Joe Hachem, has also been an active player at Poker Stars since 2001. He joined Moneymaker and Raymer as official representatives of PokerStars.com, thus fortifying the company trademark, "Where Poker Players Become World Champions."

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Poker Trivia Question #9

Q: Which poker and gin rummy legend had a genius level IQ and an eidetic (photographic) memory?

A: Stu “The Kid” Ungar. Ungar, who is still regarded by many poker insiders as the greatest pure talent ever to play the game, won the main event of the WSOP in 1980, 1981 and 1997.

Ungar was also able to keep track of every card in a six-deck blackjack shoe. In 1977, he was bet $100,000 by casino owner and designer, Bob Stupak, that he could not count down the last three decks in a six deck shoe. Ungar won the bet.

In his life, he was estimated to have won over $30 million at the poker table.

Check out the amazing life story of Stu Ungar on DVD.

Poker Trivia Question #8

Q: Who is the tallest professional poker player?

A: Phil Gordon, co-host of Bravo TV’s “Celebrity Poker Showdown” is 6’ 9” tall. Gordon raises millions of dollars for the Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation.