I'm sure most people have heard of Levitt, he's one of the most distinguished modern day economist. Anyway, I found this piece by him, published 1 month after Black Friday.

Favorite Part: " Thus, in some crude sense, the predictability of outcomes for pairs of players in a poker tournament is similar to that between
teams in Major League Baseball. To the extent that baseball would unquestionably be judged a game of skill, the same conclusion might reasonably be applied to poker in light of the data."

http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levi...s/WSOP2011.pdf