I ran across this on Bluff Magazine’s Europe site:

I could understand if they used a headline saying that someone was offering to pay Obama’s way into the WSOP main event but to imply this is even realistic is pretty sensationalistic journalism. Since when did Bluff Magazine become Gambling911?

Winner! Winner! Chicken Dinner!
Wow! What a great response. Sorry for all of those who sent me a response but were beaten to the punch by Cardgrrl from Raise or Fold: A Year of Risky Business. She is the winner of the gift card. Congrats Cardgrrl.
Just to review:
- The question only appears in the RSS or email version of the post. So if you want to get in on future contests make sure you subscribe to either one of those.
- First person to send the correct answer wins da prize!
The question that was attached to the Breath Taking post by the always excellent Tommy Angelo was:
Okay boys and girls . . . HERE IS YOUR TRIVIA QUESTION WORTH A $30 GIFT CARD
What are the last names of all the WSOP Main Event winners that have a last name that begins with the letter “M” and in what years did they win the WSOP Main Event?
First person to email xxxxxxx@xxxxxxx.xxx with the correct answer(s) gets the gift card. I will be going by when the email shows up in my inbox so any delays in the inter-tubes are beyond my control.
And the correct answer was:
- 1970 Moss
- 1971 Moss
- 1974 Moss
- 1983 McEvoy
- 1990 Matloubi
- 2001 Mortensen
- 2003 Moneymaker
I also received quite a few incorrect responses. The most common incorrect responses were either forgetting Moss’ 1974 win or forgetting about Mortensen completely (poor Carlos).
It looks like I’ll try to get some sponsors for future quizzes. I’ve already received a few offers so hopefully I can arrange something with someone fairly soon.
Some things I took away from this first experiment:
1. I should have set up an auto-responder to thank everyone who entered. I wasn’t expecting so many responses.
2. I forgot to HTML-up the quiz itself. Bad habit based on using WordPress that normally handles paragraphs and such.
April asked how I was able to power this and what I did was take Yoast’s very excellent RSS Footer plugin and make some custom mods to it.
photo by .A.A.
Over at the Las Vegas Escort Blog the Las Vegas Courtesan sees the bright side of the WSOP and poker players.
Of course I am still hearing girls moaning and complaining about how slow slow slow it is, but I am still praising the poker players here for WSOP. Thanks guys! You save me at 7am when I think there is no one left in town looking for some fun!