Ghoulish Fun

We had a Ghoul Pool winner today for the first time in seven weeks (from the death of Guy de Rothschild). Unfortunately, it wasn't me! I haven't won since 1995. Hmph. I've been running the Ghoul Pool at work for about seven years now. (It was started long before that; I just inherited it.) To play, you bet on celebrities you think are going to die (they must be newsworthy and not have a pre-existing condition). There are different ways to play this game; the way we do it is to pay 50 cents per name per week; whenever one of your people dies, you get all the money in the pool. My biggest win ever was for Gregory Peck; I won almost $1400. (That's an unusually large win.) There are currently 160 names and 19 players in our pool. Here are the names I have: Louise Bourgeois, Robert Byrd, Beverly Cleary, Lucian Freud, Miep Gies, Sir Edmund Hillary, Stan Musial, I. M. Pei, Luise Rainer, and Sherwood Schwartz.