Re: Goofy Games
Now that's a good idea, although personally I would amend it to a challenge where two players or a group of players play a game that's pretty much unknown or as close to made-up on the spot as possible (just in case someone has an disproportionate amount of experience at quadruple-draw deuces wild or whatever). But then again, if you chose the right game an event like this could technically be billed as "The World Series of Baseball".
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In other words it is somewhat of a fluke that many (not all) of the poker stars have achieved that status. Because they are not playing all the forms of poker that are played by the general population. If they were there would be different stars.
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This I disagree with. I think that for the most part the poker celebrities would be the same no matter what, because they go where the popular cardroom games are - I think that if everybody played deuce-to-the-seven and relatively nobody wanted to play holdem, people like Phil Hellmuth would be deuce-to-the-seven specialists instead of holdem specialists (much in the same way that many backgammon/gin rummy pros are learning how to play holdem because of the greater profitability there). But whatever game is the Flavor of the Week, that's what the people who want the money and/or fame will concentrate on, I think. I don't think that it's a case where there are a group of holdem pros, a group of stud pros, a group of omaha pros, and a group of lowball pros and the public decides which group to make into poker celebrities and the rest are all left to relative obscurity, no matter how great their skills or their desire for fame and fortune.
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