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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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