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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.

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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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Celebrity Poker Player: Tobey Maguire

Tired of watching your favorite celebrities in action in front of your television? How about following the entertainment news for their latest success or in some cases, their latest downfall? Then, this is the perfect place to watch and follow your favorite celebrities in playing poker and competing with each other in a round of cards.

Celebrity poker tournament has gained in popularity. People want to see their favorite celebrity in poker rooms, sitting around the poker table with their stacks of poker chips, and sweating it out the same as they do when they play poker.

Celebrity like Tobey Maguire not only hits the big screen but also the poker tables. Proving that he can score at the poker tables just as well as the box office, actor Tobey Maguire won his first major poker tournament at Phil Hellmuth's Poker Invitational at the Hollywood Park Casino, a $2,000 buy-in event that netted him $95,480 for first place. The 13-hour tournament event was held on October 27, 2004 as part of the casino's 8th Annual National Championship of Poker tournament.

Tobey Maguire is a really strong poker player, and he is a legitimate danger to go deep in any poker tournament that he plays.

His money makes is in the private poker games that are held in his Hollywood Hills mansion. The game is referred to as "Tobey's Game", and involves some of the heaviest hitters in Hollywood. One actor once remarked "I looked around the table and everyone had a net worth of $50 million except for me."

Tobey steal the show within his game, it was reported that he won a $10 million dollars in poker at the World Series Of Poker.

He outlasted a field of 123 players, with a prize pool of $246,000, including Danny Masterson of That '70s Show. Other players that placed in the tournament include Reza Payvar, Marcel Sabag, Glenn Cozen, George Yutuc, Alex Papachatzakis, Lang Lee, Lance Allred and Stan Goldstein.

"Before the tournament, Tobey told me that he would love for this to be his first tournament win. I am very proud of the way he played the game last night. He showed tremendous focus and determination. I predict that he will become one of the better poker stars. This kid could be a legitimate pro. " said Phil Hellmuth, who has played with Tobey Maguire before.

Tobey played in the 2007 World Series of Poker. He survived days 1a, 2a and 3 but was eliminated in 292nd place on the fourth day, taking $39,445 in prize money. He actually ended up sitting next to another celebrity, Sully Erna, the singer of Godsmack.

So, turn the channel to any high-stakes poker event, and chances are high that you’ll see at least one Hollywood celebrity in the thick of the action. With flexible schedules and larger-than-average bankrolls, celebrities have both the time and inclination to hone their poker playing skills in tournaments around the world. Some, of course, never rise above the rank of amateur, but others go on to become familiar faces in the world of poker.

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