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Home Poker Thursday poker quiz: November 14, 2019

Thursday poker quiz: November 14, 2019

November 07, 2019inPoker

Welcome to the weekly poker quiz on PokerStars Blog. Test your knowledge on the latest news, as well as some poker history and strategy.

NEWS: Further to last week's quiz, if Daniel Negreanu didn't win the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Player of the Year, who did?

Robert Campbell

Shaun Deeb

Trick question: Daniel Negreanu did win it!

Anthony Zinno

NEWS: The MicroMillions is now under way at PokerStars. The Main Event costs only $22 to enter, but how much is the guaranteed prize pool?

$10,000

$100,000

$1 million

$10 million

NEWS: Which U.S. Democratic presidential hopeful expressed his support for regulated online poker, stating: "We should clarify the rules and make it legal in all 50 states."

Joe Biden

Pete Buttigieg

Kamala Harris

Andrew Yang

NEWS: Oliver Hutchins won a $30,000 Platinum Pass to the PSPC after winning the Platinum Pass Experience shootout at Aspers Casino on Saturday. How much did a ticket cost to enter the event online?

Freeroll

£1.10

£5.50

£11

GEOGRAPHY: On the subject of online poker legislation, residents of which U.S. state are now able to play on PokerStars?

Nevada

Pennsylvania

Utah

Washington

GEOGRAPHY: There will be one more European stop on Chris Moneymaker's "Road to PSPC" Tour. Where will it be?

Dublin, Ireland

Edinburgh, Scotland

Liverpool, England

Swansea, Wales

HISTORY: Scotty Nguyen won the World Series of Poker in 1998 after goading his heads up opponent Kevin McBride with the now-legendary: "You call, gonna be all over, baby!" McBride did call, and lost. But what two hands did the players have?

McBride hero called with ace high and Nguyen had a pair of eights

Nguyen's set of eights beat McBride's pocket aces

Nguyen rivered a flush to beat McBride's straight

Both players had a full house, but Nguyen's was higher

HISTORY: The German player Andre Lettau made a rare appearance at the live tables when he showed up at Red Dragon Jeju this week. Lettau won the 100th ever EPT Main Event, but in what city?

Barcelona

Berlin

London

Vienna

ONLINE POKER: Which poker player has the online screen-name "wizowizo" on PokerStars?

Jonathan Duhamel

Phil Galfond

Phil Ivey

Ole Schemion

STRATEGY: We're playing no limit Texas hold'em and have A♣K♣, but we've been outflopped by our opponent's A♦Q♦ when the dealer put the 10♦4♦Q♣ flop out. The turn is the 6♣. How many outs do we have to make a winner on the river?

6

7

13

15

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