Rich is ultimately responsible for 87 players, including Mike Spinney, who was responsible for 25 players. He had a total of 15 referrals, but many of those, in turn, referred many people. Rich GOT the dead pool as quickly as I did, but was content to play in my game rather than start his own, and I'm very grateful for that, as he ended up being the biggest referrer to the KDP. Grandpa Jones was the first of the four celebrities hit that year,Ī few months later, I changed jobs and met Rich Place. I was so convinced of the obvious appeal that I included a player cap in the invitation - only the first 100 players would be accepted, so sign up now! That first game had 6 players, including my then-wife, her sister and her mother. The inaugural KDP would start on February 1, 1998. I quickly wrote up some rules and an invitation to announce it and sent it around to everybody in my (email) address book. It wasn't enough to join a dead pool - I wanted to run my own. Outside of the Dirty Harry movie, I'd never heard of a dead pool, but I was INSTANTLY hooked with the idea. I don't remember what (obviously irreverent) site/forum I was on at the time, but there was an off-hand mention of a dead pool. On January 5, 1998, Sonny Bono died while skiing at Lake Tahoe.
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