Think you know poker? Try putting your knowledge to the test by answering these trivia questions. Answers can be found after words:

1. Who has the most WSOP bracelets?

2. Who has the most top 10 finishes in the WSOP Main Event?

3. Who are the only 2 people to win the WSOP Main Event 3 times?

4. Who is the last pro to win the WSOP Main Event?

5. What is the highest stakes game known to have ever been played?

6. Why is the 10-2 called the Doyle Brunson?

7. What online site has the most regular poker players?

8. Where was Texas Hold’em invented?

9. What is the name of the book Barry Greenstein gives an autographed copy to every player who knocks him out of a tournament?

10. Why is the hand Aces and Eights referred to as the Dead Man’s Hand?

11. Does Sammy Farha actually smoke?

12. Why does Johnny Chan keep an orange at the table?

13. Name the two players who have won the H.O.R.S.E. tournament?

14. How many players entered the 2006 WSOP Main Event and how much did winner Jamie Gold receive?

15. What is Huck Seed’s actual first name?

16. What was the famous $100,000 bet made by Bob Stupak and Stu Ungar?

17. Where is the Big Game played?

18. Who are the announcers for GSN’s High Stakes Poker?

19. Who has more WSOP bracelets, Erik Seidel or TJ Cloutier?

20. How old is Jennifer Tilly?

21. When was the Hole Camera introduced?

22. Who did Phil Hellmuth defeat heads-up to win the 1989 WSOP Main Event?

23. How many times has the winner of the WSOP Main Event won the last hand holding pocket Aces?

24. Who has won the most WPT titles?

25. How much money did Second prize pay when Doyle Brunson won the WSOP Main Event in 1977?

Answers

1. Phil Hellmuth with 11, all of which are in Hold’em

2. Crandell Addington

3. Stu Ungar, Johnny Moss

4. Juan Carlos Mortensen in 2001

5. $100,000/$200,000 limit Hold’em game played in by billionaire Andy Beal and a professional pool of players including Ted Forrest, Doyle Brunson, Jennifer Harmon, and Gus Hansen

6. Because he won the WSOP Main Event in back to back years holding it.

7. Betsson.com

8. Robstown, Texas

9. Ace on the River

10. Because Wild Bill Hickok was holding it when he was shot at the poker table

11. Yes

12. To have something to smell if players start smoking

13. David “Chip” Reese and Freddy Deeb

14. 8,773 and $12,000,000

15. Huckleberry

16.Bob bet Stu that Ungar could not count down (name every card before it came) the final 2 or 3 decks (accounts vary) of a 6 deck blackjack shoe – Stu won the bet

17. Bobby’s Room in The Bellagio in Las Vegas

18. AJ Benza and Gabe Kaplan

19. Erik Seidel. TJ has 6 and Erik has 8

20. 49, she was born September 16, 1958

21. In 1999 for the British show Late Night Poker

22. Johnny Chan, after Chan had won the event the previous two years

23. Never, but twice has the loser been holding rockets.

24. Gus Hansen

25. Nothing, until 1978 the WSOP Main Event was a winner take-all. Doyle, however, won $340,000 for his championship in 1977.

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Think you know everything there is to know about poker history? Test your knowledge with the following 24 questions.

1. How many events were in the 2007 WSOP in total?

2. Who is the only person to have won Amarillo Slim’s Super Bowl of Poker more than once?

3. How much did Jamie Gold tip the dealers after his 2006 WSOP Main Event victory?

4. What are the following players’ nicknames: Mike Caro, Paul Magriel, Howard Lederer and Robert Williamson?

5. Who is the last player to make back-to-back appearances at the WSOP Main Event final table?

6. Why doesn’t Scotty Nguyen wear his 1998 WSOP Main Event bracelet?

7. How fast can Chris “Jesus” Ferguson throw a playing card?

8. How many WPT titles do Phil Hellmuth, Johnny Chan and Doyle Brunson have between them?

9. Name 3 Hollywood actors who have won major tournaments.

10. How much money did Phil Ivey win from billionaire Andy Beal over the course of a three day $25,000/$50,000 heads up game?

11. What are the blinds in the famous “Big Game” held at the Bellagio casino in Las Vegas?

12. How old is inaugural WSOP Europe Main Event champion, Annette Obrestad?

13. How much money did Stu Ungar win in major poker tournament play alone during his career?

14. How much money did Stu Ungar have to his name when he was found dead in 1998?

15. Under what president did the US Government declare online poker illegal?

16. Who is the oldest person to win a WSOP bracelet?

17. How tall is WPT champion Phil Gordon?

18. Who has won the Card Player’s Player of the Year award the most times?

19. Who are the original 3 members of the WPT Walk of Fame?

20. Which four players have captured multiple WSOP bracelets and multiple WPT titles?

21. Who is Guy Laliberte?

22. Why is Antonio Esfandiari called “the Magician”?

23. What was the buy-in for first Poker Super Stars Invitational Tournament?

24. What is the record for most cashes in a single WSOP?

ANSWERS

1. 55

2. Stu Ungar who won it three times. He is also the only player to have won the WSOP Main Event outright three times.

3. $1,000,000. He was the only player at the Final Table to tip the dealers.

4. Mike Caro is “the Mad Genius”, Paul Magriel is “X-22″, Howard Lederer is “the Professor” and Robert Williamson is “Mr. Omaha”.

5. Dan Harrington in 2003 (839 other players) and 2004 (2,576 other players).

6. The day after he won, his brother was killed in a tragic motorcycle accident. Scotty says that the bracelet reminds him too much of his brother’s untimely death.

7. Chris has been clocked at 71 mph and has cut through everything from bananas to melons with a card.

8. 1, which belongs to Doyle Brunson. On the other hand, they collectively have 31 WSOP bracelets.

9. Gabe Kaplan won a Super Bowl of Poker, Jennifer Tilly won a WSOP bracelet in the 2005 NL Hold’em Ladies Event, Ben Affleck won the 2004 California State Poker Championship for $356,000, and although he’s never won a tournament, Phil Hellmuth estimates that Tobey Maguire has won more than $10,000,000 playing poker.

10. $16,000,000.

11. $4,000/$8,000.

12. She is 19, she was 18 when she won the championship.

13. An estimated $30,000,000, largely before there was such a thing as a $1,000,000 tournament.

14. $800 in cash and personal debts to multiple players.

15. Under the Wire Act of 1961.

16. Paul “Cigar” McKinney was 80 years old when he won a bracelet in 2005.

17. Phil is 6’9″.

18. Men “the Master” Nguyen has won the award four times, David Pham and TJ Cloutier have each won twice.

19. Doyle Brunson, Gus Hansen and actor Phil Garner.

20. Howard Lederer (2 of each), Daniel Negreanu (3 WSOP, 2 WPT),Carlos Mortensen (2 of each) and Barry Greenstein (2 of each).

21. Guy is the billionaire owner and creator of Cirque du Soleil. He is a famous high stakes poker player who partook in GSN’s “High Stakes Poker” $500,000 buy in table where he lost a nearly $900,000 pot to Doyle Brunson.

22. He was a professional magician before he was a poker player.

23. $400,000.

24. 8, a record shared by Michael Binger, Chad Brown, Humberto Brenes and Phil Hellmuth.

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Q: One of the best situations in Texas Hold’em is when you flop a set (three of a kind with a pocket pair together with a card on the board.) When you do so, you have the chance to take down a huge pot with your well-disguised holding. However, in the long run, there is no chance in poker, and you can actually calculate how often you will flop a set when playing online poker. Say that you hold a pair of 5s. What is the percentage of flopping a set?

A: 11.8 %. This means, when speaking in terms of pot odds, that you should make sure that you can make around nine times your original investment when you call with a small pair before the flop.

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Q: What is the name of the billionaire banker who plays high stakes poker against “The Corporation”?

A: Andy Beal. Beal is a self-made, largely self-taught man who amassed his early fortune in real-estate investments.

During several visits between 2001 and 2004, Beal played a syndicate of professional poker players known as “The Corporation”, which included Doyle “Texas Dolly” Brunson, Todd “Darkhorse” Brunson, Ted Forrest, Jennifer Harman, Howard “The Professor” Lederer, Phil Ivey, Gus Hansen, Barry Greenstein, Chau Giang, and others.

Beal hoped to force the collective group of pros into such high stakes that their play would be influenced by the amount of money at risk. By the end of their encounters in 2004 they were playing $100,000/$200,000 Limit Texas Hold ‘Em heads up with more than $20 million on the table.

Beal returned to Las Vegas from February 1-5, 2006 to again take on “The Corporation” in a $50,000/100,000 Limit Hold ‘Em match at the Wynn Las Vegas Casino. Opponents included Todd Brunson, Jennifer Harman, Ted Forrest, and others.

On February 5, 2006, Beal was down $3.3 million (USD). He then returned to the Wynn a week later and won approximately $13.6 million from the Corporation during daily poker sessions from February 12-15. The games resumed February 21-23, with Phil Ivey representing the Corporation against Beal at limits of $30,000/60,000 and $50,000/100,000. During these three days, Beal lost $16.6 million to Ivey.

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Q: Who won the World Poker Tour’s Season 1 Championship?

A: Alan Goehring won the prize of $1,011,866 in the 2002-2003 Championship game. Goehring is a retired American junk bond analyst and trader from Henderson, Nevada. At the age of 37, he became a professional poker player.

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Q: It’s impossible to have a straight in poker without one of these 2 cards. Which 2 cards?

A: You can not have a straight in poker without having either a 5 or a 10 in your hand.

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Q: What does it mean to “check it down” in a poker tournament?

A: When a multi-way pot has one player all-in, the others will often ‘check it down’ to avoid betting another player out, producing a greater number of hands to eliminate the all-in player.

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Q: We all know that 2, 10 is known as the “Doyle Brunson” or “The Brunson.” There is another hand that is also known as the Doyle Brunson mainly because he never plays this hand. What is it?

A: Ace Queen. He makes it abundantly known that the hand is nothing but trouble.

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The first ever World Series of Poker took place in 1970, and the winner was elected by his fellow players. Who was the winner of the first WSOP Main Event?

A: Johnny Moss.

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Q: In which year did Scotty Ngyuen utter his famous phrase “You call this one and it’s all over, baby,” before taking home his first World Series of Poker Main Event title?

A: 1998. Nguyen is one of the most active players in professional poker today, and from 2000 to 2004 he finished in the money in more than 100 events. He has 4 WSOP bracelets overall.

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