Leading Personologist Creates Ultimate Poker Face
August 28th, 2008
A leading international personologist (face reading) has analysed the faces of the past ten winners of the biggest single prize in poker, the World Series of Poker Main Event, and created the ‘ultimate’ poker face.
It is said to not show any emotion, be expressionless and never give away the cards in front of you.
Remarkably, the facial features of the best poker players in the world have many similarities and the traits, which include a Roman nose, jutting chin, cupped-out ears and wide-set eyes, showing why they may be the champions they are.
Naomi Tickle, personologist and author of ‘You Can Read a Face Like a Book’, said: “Looking at these ten successful players there are many remarkable similarities, suggesting that there may well be a ‘poker face’ look.”
“Interestingly, many of the traits are ones you would normally see in actors and successful business people - it seems a good poker player mixes commercial nous with theatrical flair,” she added.
The attributes of the ‘perfect’ poker face are:
1. Roman nose of Chris Moneymaker - won $2,500,000 in 2003 WSOP
2. Wide-set eyes of Jerry Yang - won $8,250,000 in 2007 WSOP
3. Head width of Greg Raymer - won $5,000,000 in 2004 WSOP & J.J ‘Noel’ Furlong - won $1,000,000 in 1999 WSOP
4. Sloped-back forehead of Robert Varkonyi - $2,000,000 in 2002 WSOP
5. High forehead of Carlos Montensen - $1,500,000 in 2001 WSOP
6. Jutting chin of Scotty Nguyen - won $1,000,000 in 1998 WSOP
7. Outer corner of the eye of Joseph Hachem - won $7,500,000 in 2005 WSOP
8. Cupped out ears of Chris Ferguson - won $1,500,000 in 2000 WSOP
9. Flared outer edge of the eyebrow of Jamie Gold - won $12,000,000 in 2006 WSOP
The last ten World Series of Poker winners have between them won $42.25 million.
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