Pro Poker Player on "Are You Smarter then a 5th Grader?"

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Poker pro wins $500,000 on quiz show

8:50 AM, Friday, April 20, 2007 by Sarah Polson

Alex Outhred's biggest win to date didn't come from the poker tables, but instead came from competing on the television quiz show Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? He won $500,000 while competing on the show Thursday.

It may not have been a win at the poker table to add to his fourth place finish at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Mandalay Bay event, but becoming the biggest winner to date on the show was still an accomplishment.

The pro poker player and World Series of Poker (WSOP) Academy instructor could have walked away with the ultimate prize of $1 million if he'd been willing to gamble on the final question.

He opted to cash out at $500k and not try the $1 million final question. If he'd kept going and committed to the question and been wrong, he would have been left with just $25,000.

For Alex Outhred, who used pot odds analysis during the show, the risk and reward ratio wasn't good enough to give it a try.

It turns out he would have been a millionaire if he'd risked it. The question was "Who was the first American Secretary of the Treasury?" Outhred knew the answer: Alexander Hamilton.

Outhred will be making another television appearance in May when the WPT Mandalay Bay Poker Championship airs on the Travel Channel. The final table airs May 16.

Poker players can also get poker tips and advice from Outhred during the WSOP Academy Main Event Primer taking place at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, July 3-5 before the WSOP Main Event begins.

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auggie,

winning 200K in one day classifies you as a donk now? Granted, many do win that kind of money w/out a lot of skill but that is the exception not the rule. Jealous much?

[dankhank]

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if that's not the tournament history of a donk, then i don't know what a donk is.

[Eagles]

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auggie,

winning 200K in one day classifies you as a donk now? Granted, many do win that kind of money w/out a lot of skill but that is the exception not the rule. Jealous much?

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It doesn't mean he's a donk but it doesn't really prove anything. Final tabling one WPT event after satting doesn't really tell us how good he is.

[john voight]

why are ppl arguing that he is a donkey? or not a donkey? The headline read he is a pro. Meaning he makes a living playing online. That does not mean he makes 10k a night. It may mean that he makes 100$ a night or whatever.

Also, it so happened that he made 200k in a night.

I don't understand why ppl have to dispute his skill.

[Admo]

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i assumed since his best day was "just under 200k" that he's some donk who won the Sunday Million on some site and decided to go pro.

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Alex "The Insider" Outhred used to be the guy in the WPT editing suite that chose which hands were interesting enough to make the final broadcast.

He moonlighted for a while as a WPT Boot Camp instructor, but I'm pretty sure he's out of that now.

He hand-reads and understands the game well.

[Jeffmet3]

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Hi pyedog,

P.S. Also, "Who was the 1st US Sec of the Treasury?" That is a VERY hard question for most Americans. I'm guessing that 5th graders are slightly more likely to know it than adults, since it's trivially unimportant and involves our government, and that's what we try to fill our kids' heads with over here.

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If you know about history specifically the founding of the US, knowing Alexander Hamilton isn't that hard.

If they were to ask who the current secretary of treasury is, I would think that it much more challenging of a question, as ironic as that might be.

[cero_z]

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Hi pyedog,

P.S. Also, "Who was the 1st US Sec of the Treasury?" That is a VERY hard question for most Americans. I'm guessing that 5th graders are slightly more likely to know it than adults, since it's trivially unimportant and involves our government, and that's what we try to fill our kids' heads with over here.

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If you know about history specifically the founding of the US, knowing Alexander Hamilton isn't that hard.

If they were to ask who the current secretary of treasury is, I would think that it much more challenging of a question, as ironic as that might be.

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I was thinking that this would probably help, as well; his name must be on the Declaration of Independence, for example. Still, I'd bet that 8/10 random US adults would get this wrong.

[blankoblanco]

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Still, I'd bet that 8/10 random US adults would get this wrong.

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I agree, if not 9/10.

[buckslayer80]

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Hi pyedog,

P.S. Also, "Who was the 1st US Sec of the Treasury?" That is a VERY hard question for most Americans. I'm guessing that 5th graders are slightly more likely to know it than adults, since it's trivially unimportant and involves our government, and that's what we try to fill our kids' heads with over here.

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If you know about history specifically the founding of the US, knowing Alexander Hamilton isn't that hard.

If they were to ask who the current secretary of treasury is, I would think that it much more challenging of a question, as ironic as that might be.

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I was thinking that this would probably help, as well; his name must be on the Declaration of Independence, for example. Still, I'd bet that 8/10 random US adults would get this wrong.

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I wouldn't have known it. And I like to think I'm pretty good at history. And is that really a 5th grade question? I never learned that [censored] in 5th grade.