Alex Outhred: Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?
After a record win of $500,000.00 in last night’s game show, ‘Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?‘, and by not winning the top prize of one million dollars, Alex Outhred, a professional game show competitor, who is also a poker professional and instructor at the World Series of Poker Academy, had to announce to the TV audience that he is not ‘Smarter than a 5th Grader’. But anyone who watched the TV show last night knows that he indeed is ‘Smarter than a 5th Grader’.
The problem that I’ve had with this show in the past was the contestants. They mostly appeared to be picked for the show because of their lack of intelligence. So last night’s show was a refreshing change, as we got to witness someone who was actually very intelligent.
Alex Outhred won the 500K by rationalizing each question, calculating his odds as to speak, to come up with either the correct answer, or getting help from his young classmates.
Before it came to the final question for the grand prize of one million dollars, Alex Outhred had to either take his 500K or proceed with the final million dollar question. If he had gone with the final question there was no backing away from it. Once read, he would have to answer the question, which would have paid him one million for getting it correct, or had he answered wrong, he would have received his guaranteed prize of $25,000.
When Jeff Foxworthy asked Alex Outhred if he wanted to go with the last question, Alex Outhred declined and took the record winning $500,000!
For fun, Jeff Foxworthy asked the final question, it was a US History question, of which is Alex Outhred’s favorite subject. The question was, “Who was the first American Secretary of the Treasury?”. Alex Outhred instantly replied the correct answer, ‘Alexander Hamilton’. Too bad he didn’t “gamble” with that last question. But taking home a half million dollars is pretty good in my books and he and his fiancé looked pretty happy about the accomplishment.
Alex Outhred’s Poker Tournament Achievements:
Mandalay Bay Poker Championships / WPT Event Season 5
WPT Main Event - No Limit Hold’em 4th $184,745 Jun 8, 2006
Mandalay Bay Poker Championships / WPT Event Season 5
Super Satellite - No Limit Hold’em 5th $10,400 Jun 3, 2006
World Poker Challenge - WPT Season 4
Event #40 - No Limit Hold’em 5th $1,045 Mar 29, 2006
World Poker Challenge - WPT Season 4
Event #39 - No Limit Hold’em 6th $910 Mar 28, 2006
36th Annual World Series of Poker
Event #10 - WSOP Limit Hold’em 46th $2,615 Jun 11, 2005
Big Poker Oktober
No Limit Hold’em 22nd $595 Oct 13, 2004
You can see more of Outhred this May 16th when his final table appearance at the 2006 WPT Mandalay Bay Championship airs on the Travel Channel.
Click here for a recap of the questions asked to Alex Outhred.
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