For those who don't know, celebrity death pools are where everyone bets on which celebrities will die in that calendar year. Every pool has different rules, but ours works this way:
Every celebrity you pick costs 20 bucks to put into the pool. So if you pick 3 celebrities, you chip in 60 bucks. Then, when they die, each celebrity is worth a certain number of points. Every point counts for 1% of the pool's original value. So if there's 100 bucks in the pool, and someone dies who was worth 30 points, you get 30% of the pool's original worth.
Each celebrity's base point value is determined by subtracting their age from 75. So if you pick Lindsay Lohan, and she dies, she's worth 55 points, i.e. she's exceptionally valuable. If you pick some decrepit old geezer, he's worth almost nothing, as he's very likely to die. Once the pool's empty, the game's over for that year, and any money left over gets put towards our annual New Years Eve party.
There's other modifiers that get picked by a neutral party. Last year it was me. The points are pretty arbitrary. Courtney Love was -40 points, because she's so likely to croak soon. Lindsay Lohan automatically won the entire pool if she kicked it. Etc, etc...
This year I threw in for John Goodman and Amy Winehouse. Winehouse was a risk, but Goodman I was SURE would win me some money. How the HELL is this guy still walking around? It's not just the fatness, the man's face looks like the floor of a taxi cab. So far nobody had won anything, but then Ike Turner croaked and somebody just made 30 bucks off him. Normally he'd be worth zero, but this year's commisioner gave him +10 because he liked some random speech Turner made about finally finding Jesus. Such crap.
Every celebrity you pick costs 20 bucks to put into the pool. So if you pick 3 celebrities, you chip in 60 bucks. Then, when they die, each celebrity is worth a certain number of points. Every point counts for 1% of the pool's original value. So if there's 100 bucks in the pool, and someone dies who was worth 30 points, you get 30% of the pool's original worth.
Each celebrity's base point value is determined by subtracting their age from 75. So if you pick Lindsay Lohan, and she dies, she's worth 55 points, i.e. she's exceptionally valuable. If you pick some decrepit old geezer, he's worth almost nothing, as he's very likely to die. Once the pool's empty, the game's over for that year, and any money left over gets put towards our annual New Years Eve party.
There's other modifiers that get picked by a neutral party. Last year it was me. The points are pretty arbitrary. Courtney Love was -40 points, because she's so likely to croak soon. Lindsay Lohan automatically won the entire pool if she kicked it. Etc, etc...
This year I threw in for John Goodman and Amy Winehouse. Winehouse was a risk, but Goodman I was SURE would win me some money. How the HELL is this guy still walking around? It's not just the fatness, the man's face looks like the floor of a taxi cab. So far nobody had won anything, but then Ike Turner croaked and somebody just made 30 bucks off him. Normally he'd be worth zero, but this year's commisioner gave him +10 because he liked some random speech Turner made about finally finding Jesus. Such crap.
