Saturday, August 25, 2007


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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