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A host of towering Wall Street figures such as Kerk Kerkorian and Carl Icahn are said to be avid poker players, although the list of celebrity domino players doesn't seem to have quite the same A-list names. Nevertheless, there is the man they call "the quiet assassin".
Before you jump to conclusions that's sadly not fund manager Anthony Bolton but Karo Player, one of the few professionals on the tour. There's also George W Bush, but then he's not the one you're thinking of either.
Never mind, there's still plenty of time to jump on the bandwagon from the start. As Garcia says, "We did it for poker and we can do it for dominoes too." Maybe too many children in the US school system have already taken the bait and are playing dominoes under their desks at the back of the class.
Why else are they still so dumb when it comes to personal finance?
In this country, where money and how to make it is woven into the very fabric of life, there's no other excuse for such woeful level of knowledge.
On behalf of the Fed, Merrill Lynch has carried out a survey of high school seniors to discover just how up to speed they were about the world of Wall Street.
The study tested 5,775 students in 37 states on issues such as whether stocks or bonds have higher long-term returns, whether they have to pay taxes on interest earned on savings accounts, and whether they would keep their health insurance if their parents lost their jobs.
Only 14pc said stocks were likely to have higher returns, just 23pc realised that interest on savings accounts may be taxable and only 40pc understood that they could lose their health insurance if their parents became jobless.
The average score for the survey was 52pc - in other words, they flunked the class and stand a good chance of ending up poor.
So if the students haven't already got their eyes on that $50,000 domino prize, they'd better start now.
Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk