The World Series of Poker continues to big-up the 50th Anniversary of their unique poker festival by announcing the ‘First Fifty Honours’ dinner and ’50 Greatest Poker Players’ initiative.

If you Google ‘why we love lists,’ you end up staring at an article written in The New Yorker by Erik Seidel’s young padawan, Maria Konnikova, called ‘A List of Reasons Why Our Brain Loves Lists.’

The former PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) National Main Event winner’s research reveals that ‘lists’ alleviate the ‘paradox of choice’, taking away the uncomfortableness that too much information creates in our psyche.

Konnikova wrote: