The 2014 Big One for One Drop at the WSOP happened on June 8 in Las Vegas. The final table seated six players, each representing a different approach to high-stakes poker.
Jamie Gold won with aggressive position play and table psychology. How one accountant's readable style redefined what championship poker looked like on television.
The Tran organization stole millions from casinos using chip cloning, magnetic wheel manipulation, and dealer collusion across Nevada and California from 1991 to 1998.
Right, so there was this hand. This hand happened in Las Vegas, 2012, and it was the moment when a kid from Orange County California showed the world that poker, at its absolute pinnacle, was still very much about knowing what the other bloke is...
A progressive jackpot starts at 1 million and grows to 20 million. Every slot machine connected to the network feeds the pool. This is how hope becomes an industrial product.
Patrik Antonius was a professional tennis player and model. He became one of the richest online poker players of the 2000s. His story is measured, disciplined, and entirely unforgiving.
Major baccarat wins reveal patterns in how gamblers respond to sustained variance and rare outcomes. Understanding these cases through the lens of gambling psychology offers insight into both the appeal and the risks.
A Monte Carlo high-limit host recalls the teams that came through. Some won millions. Some disappeared. All of them taught the casinos something about keeping a game tight.
Kerry Packer played very high limits in Las Vegas casinos for about three decades, and the casinos were not always happy about it. Here is the case, against the conventional wisdom, that the fear was slightly overstated and that the real story is about comp economics rather than gambling prowess.
Six-time Grand Slam winner. Broke by 2017. In prison by 2022. Here's what happened, what the betting connections actually were, and why the tennis champion you watched as a kid ended up in a London courtroom trying to explain where the money went.
In 1989, a World War II veteran named Elmer Sherwin walked into the Mirage casino in Las Vegas and hit the Megabucks jackpot for 4.6 million dollars. Sixteen years later, he hit it again for 21.1 million. The odds of this happening once are roughly 50 million to one. Twice is beyond calculation.
