In a lovely story from the land of PokerStars, a player from Benin in West Africa won the PokerStars Open. In honour, they named the contest after him, and he won that as well. 

Benin is a country in West Africa.

That’s all I knew about the place until I woke up this morning.

After reading Stephen Bartley waxing lyrical about the exploits of a Benin poker player known as NhPokah on the PokerStars blog, I know a tad more about the gaff.