Ah, the thrill of big pots. You might play $0.25-$0.50 and get excited by $10 pots, $1-$2 and find yourself jazzed over a $450 pot, but no matter what level you play, you know what size pot is always exciting? $1 million pots. Unfortunately for this round-up of bar-none, par-excellence poker videos guaranteed to entertain [...]

Bad beat stories: you see them in forums, read them in chat bars, and hear them at every live table you play at. They can get old, because everybody experiences them. But there are some bad beats that are just too entertaining to get old. Unsurprisingly, these involve players like Phil Hellmuth and Daniel Negreanu, [...]

Come on, don’t lie: you missed Phil Ivey at the 2011 WSOP. We all did! Whether or not he makes the money, as long as he’s in a tournament, he’s headline news, absolutely fascinating to watch, and easily makes his table the most interesting in the tournament. Although internet poker certainly has a dominant place [...]

The TV show The Big Game has been a notable success for PokerStars, and entertained the poker world thoroughly. If you’re not familiar with The Big Game, the set-up is both simple and compelling. For 150 hands, an amateur player called the ‘loose cannon’ is staked $100k to play against a table of five professionals, [...]

I don’t know about you, but I love watching Doyle Brunson. I love watching him beat up younger players, laying down the old school smack down on up and comers left and right. Chris Moneymaker revolutionized poker, and the poker industry is flooded with internet players all over the world. Viktor Blom, Tom Dwan, and [...]

Poker is a game of ups and downs. Bankroll swings and bad beats. One minute you could be raking in a big pot, the next, your access to U.S. Poker sites could be shut down. The past few days have undeniably been a low point in the long history of the game, so what better [...]

There’s a temptation when ranking women poker players to just go for the obvious. As a red blooded male who eats uncooked steak and drives 4X4s into cattle, the easy decision would be to rate lady cardsharps on how fertile their hips are. But did I mention that I’m also a feminist? I support total [...]

In honour of Todd Brunson’s twitter campaign this past week, let’s take a look at some of the most thrilling poker confrontations ever caught on camera. In case you missed it, Todd began tweeting on Friday about a fist fight between himself and Shawn Sheikhan. Referring to the much derided Iranian as ‘Sheepy’, Todd told [...]

When you’re new to the game, it’s easy to imagine that good poker is all about bluffing. It seems like everything else is just down to luck. The players can’t control how the cards will run out, so the only way to get beating your opponent is to make him fold while he’s ahead. Neophytes [...]

Each and every grinder, every nearly-man, every five-time bracelet winner, there’s one thing they want above all else: To win the World Series of Poker. Only a select group of players have actually done it. Gathered here today is a list of my favourite Main Event champions. There’s no strict category or convoluted numerical numbering [...]