Posted by Dr Fro 10:18 AM

There is a great article in the NY Times about the WTO case against America's ban on online gambling. If you don't have a registered account on NYT, check out the article on Iggy's site.

And in the random observation category, I just noticed how often it has worked out that the Main Event of the WSOP is won on a hand that is an underdog preflop. Who says it has nothing to do with luck?

(I don't know why the formatting of this table is so messed up - something to do with the html getting trumped by blogger defaults/settings)

Year	Winner / Winning Hand	Runner-Up / Losing Hand	Preflop dog or favorite?
1995	Dan Harrington 9♦ 8♦	Howard Goldfarb A♥ 7♣	dog
1996	Huck Seed 9♦ 8♦	Bruce Van Horn K♣ 8♣	big dog
1997	Stu Ungar A♥ 4♣	John Strzemp A♠ 8♣	big dog
1998	Scotty Nguyen J♦ 9♣	Kevin McBride Q♥ 10♥	dog
1999	Noel Furlong 5♣ 5♦	Alan Goehring 6♥ 6♣	big dog
2000	Chris Ferguson A♠ 9♣	T. J. Cloutier A♦ Q♣	big dog
2001	Juan Carlos Mortensen K♣ Q♣	Dewey Tomko A♠ A♥	big dog
2002	Robert Varkonyi Q♦ 10♠	Julian Gardner J♣ 8♣	slight favorite
2003	Chris Moneymaker 5♦ 4♠	Sam Farha J♥ 10♦	big dog
2004	Greg Raymer 8♠ 8♦	David Williams A♥ 4♠	slight favorite
2005	Joe Hachem 7♣ 3♠	Steve Dannenmann A♦ 3♣	big dog
2006	Jamie Gold Q♠ 9♣	Paul Wasicka 10♥ 10♠	big dog
2007	Jerry Yang 8♦ 8♣	Tuan Lam A♦ Q♦	race

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